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- IHBC’s FREE Pre-Conference CPD webinar series for #IHBCReading2024 School continues: ‘Reading Abbey Revealed’ (10/5), Munstead Wood (16/05) & Reading’s changes (24/05) 07/05/2024
- Reserve your place at IHBC’s 2024 School #IHBCReading2024: Place and building care across 4 days, from £30+VAT for Virtual Day School 07/05/2024
- IHBC’s new CPD Circular now out: Easy access to training, awards & more – from free pre-conference Reading School webinars, to retrofit (Quaker), regen (Bishop Auckland), BNG & more 07/05/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Technology’ Competence signpost: Government harnesses AI to improve public project delivery 07/05/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’ reminder: ALL HESPR members’ staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT 07/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (construction) doorstep’: Housing plans unveiled for King’s Arms Hotel in Irvine 07/05/2024
- HE updates on Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act Regulations 07/05/2024
- UK Government saves six vital community spaces from closure in Wales 07/05/2024
- Housing Made for Everyone (HoME) coalition seeks cure for ‘shortage of accessible and adaptable homes’ 07/05/2024
- RTPI supports Government’s drive to deliver more homes on brownfield land 07/05/2024
- RAAC discovered in 18 Scottish universities and colleges 07/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: 50 years of Australia’s ‘Victorian Heritage Register’ 1974-2024 07/05/2024
- IHBC’s 2024 AGM concludes with overwhelming support for ‘next steps’ in petition for charter exploration: ‘Preparing a Memorandum for the Privy Council Office’ 03/05/2024
- Reserve your place at IHBC’s 2024 School #IHBCReading2024: ‘Place and building care’ across 4 days, from £30+VAT for Virtual Day School 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s Chair welcomes Carole Souter CBE as THA’s new Chair of Trustees 03/05/2024
- Your guidance for #IHBCReading2024 School CPD focus, including ‘Legislation & Policy’ + ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June, from £30+VAT 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s volunteering spotlight: AHF seeks up to three new Trustees, including Chair of Audit and Risk Committee, to 31 May 03/05/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £400K+ works this week: Heritage estate body seeks Landscape Architect for woodland landscape, to 24/05 03/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: A New Future For Dover’s Historic Roman Painted House 03/05/2024
- £14.8million awarded by HLF to projects forging the future of industrial past across the UK 03/05/2024
- Government on ‘Partnerships for People and Place’: Offering guidance for ‘officials in place-based policymaking’ 03/05/2024
- AHF on new grants to transform Historic High Streets in England 03/05/2024
- Check out THA’s Carbon Literacy Training Courses & dates 03/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European citizens support religious heritage 03/05/2024
- Another FREE pre-conference #IHBCReading2024 School webinar: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ (03/05, from 1.00pm) and with more to come 30/04/2024
Daily Archives: 10/04/2020
IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School postponed to 2021, as 2020 School goes virtual, on ‘OLD TOWNS | NEW FUTURES’ confronted by a global pandemic, June 19, online and interactive
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the IHBC’s 2020 Brighton School has to be postponed to 2021 – with details to be confirmed later – but the IHBC carries on unbowed as we re-imagine our annual CPD highlight as a shorter … Continue reading
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IHBC’s 2020 AGM postponed: Provisionally re-scheduled to December 3, London, tied to IHBC’s Council+ plans
With the postponement of the IHBC’s 2020 Annual School planned for Brighton, the AGM also is postponed, with plans currently – and subject to COVID-19 impacts – for the AGM to take place on December, linked to an exisiting booking … Continue reading
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REMINDER: IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 11: HE sector survey of pandemic impacts: Closing 13 April
Historic England (HE) has opened a short survey seeking reposnses on how sector bodies are being affected by the current pandemic.
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IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 12: Seeking skills due to slow work or furlough? Why not publish that Conservation Wiki article you always longed time for?
Using the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki, and its host platform Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – the construction industry knowledge base – IHBC members can take the opportunity to publish on that subject you’ve planned for so long, on any construction industry … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week: English BC seeks HAZ related (Technical Design) services, closing 13/04, valued £5000
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’: Shildon’s railway heritage gets a new lease of life with conservation experts
Work is underway to give several buildings a new lease of life at Locomotion in Shildon, following the appointment of building contractor, VEST Construction (VEST) of Bishop Auckland, reports The Northern Echo.
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Scottish Government helping homeowners maintain tenements
Scottish Government is funding research into advice and support to resolve disputes over shared upkeep of tenements. Image: Commons Wikimedia – Thomas Nugent / Dudley Drive
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Open consultation: Taking Part Survey Review – closing 1 June
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) is currently undertaking a review of the survey needs of the department, including the Taking Part survey, closing 1 June 2020.
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Where Next? Scoping Future Arts and Humanities led research – closing 21 April
Due to the unfolding Covid-19 situation and the challenges this presents for applicants in putting together applications the AHRC has extended the deadline for this call to Tuesday 21st April 2020.
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RTPI Awards for Research Excellence open for entries, closing 18 May
The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence recognise and promote high quality, impactful spatial planning research carried out by chartered members and accredited planning schools from around the world and are open for entries until 18 May at 5pm.
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Quartermain outlines government support for PAs under Covid-1 in final letter as England’s chief planner
England’s chief planner Steve Quartermain has encouraged local planning authorities to use technology to continue their service and ensure that discussions and consultations can go ahead during the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid-19).
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Submarine reactor test site at Dounreay to be demolished… by 2030s
A facility used for testing nuclear submarine reactors in Dounreay, Scotland is to be demolished by the 2030s.
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