{"id":47773,"date":"2026-08-25T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47773"},"modified":"2026-08-25T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:15:18","slug":"ihbc-hesprs-news-from-the-sector-double-up-ihbc-calls-for-member-assessors-while-building-reports-on-plymouth-uk-design-capital-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=47773","title":{"rendered":"IHBC HESPR\u2019s \u2018News from the Sector\u2019 double up! IHBC calls for member assessors while Building reports on \u2018Plymouth – UK Design Capital shortlist\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

IHBC\u2019s heritage business register HESPR<\/a> \u2013 our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition<\/a> quality assurance scheme for heritage services \u2013 emails members weekly \u2018News and Tender Alerts<\/a>\u2019, and this week features IHBC and its call for member assessors and Building<\/em> on \u2018Plymouth \u2013 UK Design Capital shortlist\u2019.
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Daniel Gayne writes in Building<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britain\u2019s Ocean City, as it calls itself, stands on the brink of what is likely to be a truly transformative period\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The port, which is the sole nuclear repair and refuelling facility for the Royal Navy, has been lined up for a \u00a34.4bn investment from central government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you think that the middle of a city sounds like a weird place for a new town, you might need a lesson about Plymouth\u2019s planning history.

The city was ravaged by German bombs during the Second World War\u2026.But the authority at the time opted against rebuilding the city as it had been, instead commissioning Sir Patrick Abercrombie to draw up a radical plan for a new city centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result had all the hallmarks of post-war modernist planning\u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026.the Plymouth City Living Framework now under development will aim to \u2018improve what works in the Abercrombie plan, but look to then reimagine other parts that don\u2019t\u2019, in the words of Ely [Alex Ely, founder director at Mae]. In the city core, that means a \u2018more European type city of mid-rise\u2019, keeping to, and in some cases realising for the first time, the six- to eight-storey development that Abercrombie had envisaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IHBC\u2019s call to all HESPR members<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join IHBC\u2019s Membership Assessors<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please submit your Expression of Interest NOW<\/em><\/strong> HERE<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n