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- 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 12/04/2024
- IHBC welcomes SE Branch #IHBCReading2024 Bursary call (closing 17 April), complementing SE Branch Day School CPD on ‘Levelling Up our World Heritage’, Canterbury, 26/04 (from £35) 12/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 12/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: HSTF Annual Research Study 2024 – Place Partnerships 12/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £170K+ works this week: National heritage body seeks agency for branding project, to £80K 12/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Poltimore House fire met with heartbreak and ‘deep sense of loss’ 12/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Crooked House owners appeal against order to rebuild historic pub 12/04/2024
- Scottish Government issues guidance on Chief Planning Officers: Head of Profession, Professional Adviser, & more 12/04/2024
- England consults on accelerated planning system, ‘10 weeks and fee refunds’ for major commercial applications, to 01/05 12/04/2024
- ‘Still a significant burden’: RIBA responds to reduced ARB accreditation fee 12/04/2024
- SAVE and Architects’ Journal launch ideas competition for M&S Oxford Street site with ‘re:store’ 12/04/2024
- QEST announces Heritage Craft Sustainability Awards: Deadline 24/05 12/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global Doorstep’: Winners of Costa Carras European Citizens Awards for the Safeguard of Endangered Heritage 2024 12/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 09/04/2024
- IHBC’s new CPD Circular now out: Easy access to training, awards & more – from UK (30/04) & Branch AGMs to Kasbah, World Heritage, regen & more 09/04/2024
- English Heritage Chair, Gerard Lemos CMG CBE, to open IHBC’s Reading Day School, 14/06 09/04/2024
- ‘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!’ 09/04/2024
- IHBC launches online Beta ‘Climate Change Hub’ resource: Open call for input and contributions in advance of formal launch 09/04/2024
- IHBC’s AI in ‘Practice’ Signpost No 2: AI for AI 09/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘History’ Signpost: DBW article ‘Architectural Styles’ 09/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: Dezeen on ‘… the fate of UK social-housing estates… an urgent topic’’ 09/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: £100Mn plan to transform Swansea’s High Street area 09/04/2024
- Volunteering adds £4.6bn to UK economy each year, researchers estimate 09/04/2024
- State of Construction Apprenticeship Report 2024 published: 5% decrease in UK construction apprenticeships 09/04/2024
- The Corner, Darvel, East Ayrshire, wins SCT’s My Place Awards 2024! 09/04/2024
Daily Archives: 14/08/2020
IHBC’s latest ‘CPD Circular’ now out! Features include Europe’s largest heritage trade show Denkmal
The IHBC has issued its latest ‘CPD Circular’, with post-lockdown event planning content that includes the IHBC’s own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) support, the ‘IHBC Recognised CPD Providers’ CPD service, as well as Denkmal, one of Europe’s largest trade shows … Continue reading
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IHBC’s ‘Don’t forget’: England’s Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage: Applications end 17/08
IHBC members are reminded that applications to the Heritage Fund’s £92m Culture Recovery Fund for Heritage, which offers grants from £10,000 to £3million, close on 17 August.
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week: Ulster CC competition for civic building, closing 04/09
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 features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Guildford Casino nightclub development unanimously rejected, labelled ‘monstrous carbuncle’
The proposal for the large quadrant development at the Guildford Casino nightclub site – included 267 student bedrooms and a rooftop terrace – has been unanimously rejected by Guildford Borough Council (GBC), reports Surrey Live.
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IHBC’s ‘Out of Context’ CPD boost from Ireland: Pevsner, pubs, and the origins of the ‘Buildings of Ireland’
You may own ‘a Pevsner’ or two, or more, to help you with your architectural conservation and history, but did you know that a lunch with Nikolaus Pevsner in a Westminster pub in the spring of 1967 led to the … Continue reading
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AHF: Transformational Project Grant awards ‘get High Streets and Town Centres in England Thriving’
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) has announced the second round of Transformational Project Grants to charities and social enterprises with fresh, imaginative ideas for revitalising their local high streets and town centres in England. image: AHF website
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Government publishes UCL-led research on permitted development housing quality: It’s ‘worse’
Research led by Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) academics, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), concludes that new housing created through permitted development rights in England since 2013 is more likely to be characterised by … Continue reading
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Councils across England ‘lack essential safeguards to prevent corruption in the planning process’: Transparency International UK
A new report by Transparency International UK, ‘Permission Accomplished’, published in July 2020, indicates that Councils across England lack essential safeguards to prevent corruption in the planning process.
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Campaigners Call for Guarantees For Green Home Grant Cavity Wall Installations
The Green Homes Grant scheme which offers vouchers for energy efficiency work such as cavity wall insulation launches in September, but campaigners are stressing the importance of the quality of the work being guaranteed.
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Consumer campaign launched to help boost construction industry recovery: TrustMark’s ‘Work Safe. Safe Work’
New guidance is being issued by Trustmark to homeowners for when they have tradespeople carry out work in their homes, ‘The Work Safe. Safe Work’ campaign.
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A plan for nature in the north of England: ‘Natural Assets North’
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published its report ‘A plan for nature in the north of England: Natural Assets North final report’, which argues that ‘Reversing the underinvestment and under-valuation of nature will increase the resilience of … Continue reading
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NI’s HED launches programme promoting careers in heritage skills: Open to 28/08
Northern Ireland’s (NI) Department for Communities’ Historic Environment Division (HED), in partnership with The Prince’s Foundation, have launched the NI Heritage Skills Programme, with applications open until 28 August.
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Don’t demolish old buildings, urge architects to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee (EAC), via the BBC
Footage of buildings being flattened in a noisy demolition may be a popular feature of local TV news reports, but architects say such structures should be protected – to fight climate change, reports the BBC on recent evidence given to … Continue reading
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Dunston Staiths: BBC on a symbol of the past fighting for its future, courtesy locals, BPTs, and more
Dunston Staiths is a pier-like runway that was used to tip countless millions of tons of coal into the cargo holds of the huge ships on the River Tyne below, and it’s recue is the focus of a BBC report … Continue reading
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