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- First ‘priority CPD’ guidance out for #IHBCReading2024 School, globally accessible from only £30+VAT: ‘Management’ Competences -‘Legislation & Policy’, ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Canal and River Trust on ‘Our impact: transforming places, enriching lives’ 23/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 23/04/2024
- IHBC issues 2024 AGM reminders: To voting members, ‘Please complete your proxy form’, and for all, to register in advance for Robyn Pender on ‘… energy in buildings…’, 30/04 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ALL HESPR member staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT (Code required) 23/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversial demolition of closed Museum of London and office block expected 23/04/2024
- Intangible Cultural Heritage: UK becomes the 183rd State to join UNESCO’s Convention 23/04/2024
- HES: New Report on Connections Between Properties in Care and the British Empire 23/04/2024
- 10 New Design Code Pathfinder areas selected 23/04/2024
- BEFS Policy Map for Scotland’s Existing Built Environment Policy Overview Map, Spring 2024 23/04/2024
- Budget boost for farmers and environment with extension to Agricultural Property Relief 23/04/2024
- ADF announces its 2024 brief: ‘Rethinking Home-Adapt and Reuse’ 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s next OPEN & FREE ‘Management’ CPD Pre-School webinars for #IHBCReading2024 School theme, ‘Place & Building Care…’: ‘Enforcement’ (03/05) and ‘Munstead Wood’ estate (16/05) 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: ICE advice for engineers to close the gender pay gap following on RAE research 19/04/2024
- IHBC issues 2024 AGM reminders: To voting members, ‘Please complete your proxy form’, and for all, to register in advance for Robyn Pender on ‘… energy in buildings…’, 30/04 19/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 19/04/2024
- ‘Money is still not the barrier’: Bursaries extended for IHBC’s 2024 School, #IHBCReading2024, 12/13-15 June – ‘Submit now to be next on the list!’ 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £112K+ works this week: Heritage team seeks engineering services for canal restoration, £70K, to 10/05 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Claim – Torbay’s planning rules are being flouted due to lack of enforcement 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Proposals for £65m University Centre Blackpool set for decision 19/04/2024
- Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks 19/04/2024
- Joint statement on England’s Natural and Historic Environment published by NE, HE and Lottery: ‘Integrating the Management of the Natural and Historic Environment’ 19/04/2024
- Architects etc. – Professional Practical Experience Commission – Call for evidence, to 24/04 19/04/2024
- Office for Place Update: Free Places at 2024 Design Code Schools for LPA officers 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier 2024, closing 30/04. 19/04/2024
Monthly Archives: April 2020
IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School now booking: ‘OLD TOWNS | NEW FUTURES’, Heritage Reflections & Speculations from a Global Pandemic, June 19, online and interactive, sessions starting at £15+VAT
With some speakers agreed – including architect Carl Elefante, 94th President of The American Institute of Architects – and delegate places limited, booking has been opened on the IHBC’s CPD highlight for 2020, our ‘Virtual School’, as we look ahead … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest’/’Sector News’ pick of the week, from the IHBC: BD on variations in ‘virtual’ planning committees
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, including notices gleaned from across the development sector’s … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 21: PD rights for creation of medical facilities comes into effect, but do not change LBC
Emergency legislation on Permitted development (PD) rights, that allows councils and health providers in England to establish facilities to support the fight against the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, came into force on 9 April and while work can be undertaken in … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 22: BEFS calls for reference to HES grants in measures tied to COVID-19 heritage sector funding
BEFS has… written to Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop, calling for heritage measures to specify reference to the grants delivered through Historic Environment Scotland.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost update 23: HE survey results
Historic England (HE) has published results form the recent short survey on how sector bodies are being affected by the current pandemic.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 24: Update from THA
Noting that the current coronavirus outbreak is causing concern amongst across its membership and the sector more widely The Heritage Alliance (THA) is continuing to advocate on behalf of the sector, including with regular meetings and communications with DCMS.
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IHBC’s ‘Conservation from the doorstep’: Call to protect Leeds’ heritage buildings on Notre Dame fire anniversary
A fire safety expert has called for tighter laws forcing owners of heritage buildings to boost their protective measures after hundreds of fires in historic buildings in the last 12 months, reports the Yorkshire Evening Post.
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IHBC’s ‘Conservation from the doorstep’: Bicycle mural in Milton Keynes could be dismantled and used as school signposts
The Milton Keynes Citizen reports on how heritage campaigners are objecting to a plan to dismantle an historic bicycle mural and use it for school signposts.
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IHBC’s CPD Boost, under COVID-19: See Web Cams of surreally empty city streets, Venice, New York, London & Beyond, courtesy of Open Culture
‘… empty cities seem a little more dystopian to me. Dystopias are ‘a kind of surrealism’, writes Kim Stanley Robinson for Open Culture, accompanied by views of empty streets.
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Second round of Urban Tree Challenge Fund opened on 30 March 2020
The second round of the £10 million Urban Tree Challenge Fund opened on 30 March, helping plant more trees in England’s cities and towns. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Personal and economic well-being in the UK: February 2020
Estimates looking across personal and economic well-being in the UK for Quarter 3 (July to Sept) 2019 have been published by the ONS.
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Edinburgh Council develops repairs app for shared properties
City of Edinburgh Council is developing an app to support residents in shared properties in keeping their buildings in good condition. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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IHBC’s 2020 Virtual School now booking: ‘OLD TOWNS | NEW FUTURES’, Heritage reflections and speculations from a pandemic, June 19, online and interactive, sessions starting at £15+VAT
With some speakers agreed – including architect Carl Elefante, 94th President of The American Institute of Architects – and delegate places limited, booking has been opened on the IHBC’s CPD highlight for 2020, our ‘Virtual School’, as we look ahead … Continue reading
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IHBC seeks volunteers to shape ‘Virtual MATE’ sessions: More free IHBC CPD supporting membership applications
The IHBC is developing new models to deliver online MATE (Membership Application Training Event) sessions, and seeks prospective applicants for 2-3 hour support sessions to test our plans for ‘Virtual MATEs’.
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IHBC encourages responses to HE Local Authority Strategic Framework (LASF) 10 year plan consultation… closing extended to 25 May
Historic England (HE) is holding a consultation on its new Local Authority Strategic Framework (LASF), which will guide engagement with local authorities, support the prioritisation of resources, and help local authorities to understand what Historic England does, why and how, … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 17: TCI on Planning and infrastructure, different approaches and unanswered questions
The Consultation Institute (TCI) highlights how the UK has fast tracked passage of the Coronavirus Act, while around the world different states have similarly legislated to attempt to counter the consequences of coronavirus, and asks ‘Where do these changes take … Continue reading
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 18: CLC Survey on construction industry at the end of lock-down
Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has issued a short member survey to identify ‘the biggest issues following the end of the Coronavirus lockdown’.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 19: HES survey of pandemic impacts on sector, developed in partnership with BEFS
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is conducting a new survey of businesses and organisations to understand the impacts of this fast-changing situation on the historic environment sector across Scotland, developed in partnership with BEFS.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 20: AHRC seeks research and innovation ideas to address Covid-19
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) welcomes applications to the UKRI open call for research and innovation ideas to address the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £180K costed works: English BC seeks QS for museum modernisation, closing 04/05, no value stated
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services working to the IHBC’s standards – emails its members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the IHBC Director’s top pick this … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Conservation from the doorstep’: 1933 Church in New Brighton secures funds for dome restoration
The Tablet has reported on how the church of Ss Peter and Paul and St Philomena, in New Brighton, Wallasey, has been awarded more than £300,000 by the National Lottery to restore the dome of the basilica.
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IHBC CPD Boost: Frank Lloyd Wright houses offer virtual tours – Hollyhock House, Taliesin West, Fallingwater & more
To make sure the public still has access to twelve of those famous works, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy— along with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the Unity Temple Restoration Foundation — has launched #WrightVirtualVisits, which offers virtual … Continue reading
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Exploring volunteers’ attitudes to health and safety in charity sector – volunteers sought!
Ecclesiastical is partnering with leading researchers at the Health and Safety Executive’s Science and Research Centre to develop practical advice for charities, and seeks volunteers.
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High street benefits £22 billion grants and business rates package
High streets have begun to receive a £22 billion coronavirus boost, with grants of up to £25,000 already being paid into bank accounts of high street businesses, government reports. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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England’s Strategic Stone Study to be relaunched and promoted
The Strategic Stone Study, which has been described as ‘the most important project ever undertaken to identify and record the sources and uses of building stones in England’ has been completed this March.
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