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- IHBC’s new in-person ‘Day School+’ options for #IHBCReading2024, 14/06: Add Thursday Reception (£20+VAT) and/or Friday Annual Dinner (£65+VAT) – limited availability, book now 17/05/2024
- Save the date & pass it on: 14 June, IHBC’s Virtual Day School for #IHBCReading2024 – finance, law, people & more, from £30+VAT (IHBC, RTPI, Conservation Courses, Fit for the Future etc.) 17/05/2024
- IHBC welcomes Purcell’s guidance on RAAC for Listed Buildings in England & Wales 17/05/2024
- IHBC’s Reading 2024 School CPD Circular now out: Still places left on our Day (14/06) & Virtual School, from only £30+VAT 17/05/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Practice’ Competence signpost: AHRC’s Place-Based Research Programme briefs – ‘Collaborative community heritage’ 17/05/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £22M+ works this week: Welsh Council seeks design lead to transform urban heritage property, closing 06/06 17/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep 1’: South Staffs notified of postponement of Crooked House Enforcement Notice public inquiry 17/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (council) doorstep 2’: Greenfields recreation land bought back by Shrewsbury Town Council for the community 17/05/2024
- CLC report: Driving competency in the retrofit sector 17/05/2024
- UK’s biggest infrastructure companies sign pledge to decarbonise the construction sector 17/05/2024
- A UK-wide campaign celebrating the ‘8 Types of Impact of Culture and Heritage’ to ‘make the case for investment’ 17/05/2024
- IHBC’s FREE Pre-Conference CPD webinar series for #IHBCReading2024 School continues: Munstead Wood (16/05) & Reading’s conservation and development (24/05) 14/05/2024
- IHBC’s Technical Panel Chair appointed to STBA Board: ‘… strengthening ties between the two organisations..’ 14/05/2024
- IHBC’s Reading 2024 School CPD Circular now out: Still places left on Full School (12/13-15 June), Day (14/06) & Virtual, from only £30+VAT, with free pre-School webinars too 14/05/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: AJ on ‘architects without CSCS ‘skills’ card…’ 14/05/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Proposals for ‘bonkers’ Broad Street skyscraper over listed building refused 14/05/2024
- Policy Exchange: New report shows that building more tall buildings is not the solution to the housing crisis 14/05/2024
- New guide on how to create 20-minute neighbourhood launched in Dundee 14/05/2024
- Trinity research on Valentia Slate results in its designation as a Heritage Stone 14/05/2024
- England’s new policy paper on ‘Apprenticeship Funding’ 14/05/2024
- Investing in Planning: A consultation on resourcing Scotland’s planning system, to 31/05 14/05/2024
- Clarice Cliff, 20th century ceramicist known for colourful designs, honoured in Blue Plaque Scheme, Design category 14/05/2024
- IHBC’s Reading 2024 School CPD Circular out: Still places left on Full School (12/13-15 June), Day (14/06) & Virtual, from only £30+VAT, with free pre-School webinars too 10/05/2024
- IHBC Chair registers sadness at untimely death of Rosemarie MacQueen MBE, ‘…one of the Institute’s most distinguished members…’ 10/05/2024
- Book now for IHBC’s ‘hybrid’ 2024 School #IHBCReading2024: IHBC Certified CPD across Law, Economics & Practice, with options from £30+VAT for 1 day (online) 10/05/2024
Monthly Archives: October 2020
Welsh Assembly Senedd to consider NDF for 60 day period
The Welsh Assembly Senedd is to consider, for a 60-day period, the National Development Framework (NDF), setting the direction for development in Wales to 2040.
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HES launches Historic Environment Recovery Fund
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has launched a new £2.6 million fund to support the recovery of Scotland’s historic environment sector from the impacts of COVID-19, with applications opening on Monday 12 October. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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New government measures to deliver value to society through public procurement: Start 1 January 2021
Businesses seeking to win government work must set out how they will also deliver social value priorities, following new measures that come into effect on 1 January 2021. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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Taylor Review Pilot: Final evaluation on sustainable, listed POWs issued
The final evaluation from the Taylor Review Pilot, examining the sustainability of historic places of worship (POW) in England, has been issued. image for illustration purposes only
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England’s Green Homes Grants service: Apply for up to £10,000 to make your home more energy efficient
Applicants can use the Green Homes Grant service to apply for a grant of up to £10,000 towards the cost of making your home more energy efficient.
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Six African heritage sites under threat from climate change
From rock art in southern Africa to pyramids along the River Nile, humans have been leaving their mark across the continent for millennia, but the BBC highlights reports on how extreme weather events, the rise in sea levels and other … Continue reading
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IHBC’s latest Membership Matters out now, with ‘Good news and sad…’
IHBC members and colleagues who are signed-up to the service will have received the current issue of our Membership Matters – previously the Member Eletter– offering updates on recent trustee meetings and providing more context on our NewsBlog service updates.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: Dezeen on Goldfinger’s Glenkerry House
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, with notices from across the development sector’s publications, and this week features Dezeen … Continue reading
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Letter from DCMS Culture Secretary on HM Government position on contested heritage
On 22 September, the Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden wrote to DCMS Arm’s Length Bodies to outline the Government’s position on contested heritage, noting that ‘the Government does not support the removal of statues or other similar objects’.
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A third of National Trust properties linked to ‘colonial histories’, finds review
The National Trust has acknowledged that some of its collections can ‘cause offence and distress’, as it publishes an interim review into links between its properties and the slave trade.
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NI Heritage Statistics as recorded on 31 March 2019 now published
The Northern Ireland (NI) Heritage Statistics document was recorded on 31 March 2019 and sets out how Northern Ireland’s historic environment contributes to our prosperity, progress and personality. It demonstrates, with reference to case studies, that our heritage has a … Continue reading
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Liverpool Mayor blocks £5m zip wire plan
Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson has made a dramatic intervention into the zip wire row which has divided people, politicians and businesses in the city. image: for illustration purposes only – Dave Chetwin
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Victorian Society’s Top 10 Most Endangered Buildings list 2020
The Victorian Society’s Top 10 Endangered Buildings list highlights at-risk heritage all over the country in the hope of finding new solutions, with calls also to support the Society as it offers £10 off annual membership for the first year … Continue reading
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DCMS report: ‘Productivity and the Arts, Heritage and Museums Sectors’
Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published a report that sets out a conceptual framework for understanding and reviews the evidence base around productivity in the arts, heritage and museum sectors.
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Flat conversion plans approved for listed building on Aberdeen’s granite mile
The empty upper floors of a C-listed granite building on Aberdeen’s main thoroughfare are to be converted into flats.
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Public in the dark on economic impact of major infrastructure: YouGov
A new survey conducted by YouGov on behalf of GLIL Infrastructure, a £1.8bn investment fund backed by UK local government pension schemes, has revealed that the British public are in the dark about the economic impact of several recent and … Continue reading
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Global view on coastal flooding: Could Threaten Millions and Cost Trillions by 2100, new study finds
The climate crisis may usher in a new level of global economic catastrophe and human suffering as extreme weather worsens and coastal flooding intensifies, reports a new study that found that extreme weather will make coastal areas dangerous places to … Continue reading
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Interested in the IHBC’s new governance and proposed Articles, and want to know more? ‘Just ask the IHBC’, in one of our new live, online discussion events
The IHBC is opening a programme of membership-wide, on-line discussions beginning with the next steps in our modernised governance, as new ‘Articles’ are proposed for adoption at the 2020 AGM on 3 December (#IHBCAGM2020), so if you have queries to … Continue reading
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ADDC Architects latest practice to join IHBC’s HESPR register of service providers working to IHBC standards
ADDC Architects, a small practice in Derbyshire specialising in planning and heritage work, is the latest company join the IHBC’s ‘HESPR’ quality assured network – our heritage business listing connecting client needs & heritage expertise – now numbering nearly 50 … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £51K+ costed works: Council seeks landscape etc. services, closing 5/10 and valued at £45K
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 features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Petition to save former Weymouth community pub from demolition
The Dorset Echo has featured a campaign to prevent an historic former Weymouth community pub, the ‘Ferrybridge Inn’, being demolished and turned into flats.
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Big Ben’s roof is revealed as conservation work continues
The roof of the Elizabeth Tower (also known as Big Ben) is slowly becoming visible again from 28 September 2020, as part of the scaffolding is removed. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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MHCLG’s £80M boost to towns
Over a hundred towns in England are to share £80 million to boost regeneration, helping them to build back better, England’s Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has reported. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government Licence … Continue reading
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Investment into Wales by the Heritage Fund & partners: 15-Minute Heritage open for applications, closing 14/10
The Heritage Fund is offering grants of between £3,000 – £10,000 for projects based in Wales that will encourage engagement with their local heritage, with this 15-Minute Heritage distributed by The National Lottery Heritage Fund in partnership with Cadw, the … Continue reading
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Regenerating communities in Scotland, with £30M to support economic recovery
All of Scotland’s 32 local authorities and more than 25 individual community regeneration projects will receive a share of £30 million of new investment for regeneration and town centres. image of Govanhill Baths: By Michal Klajban – Own work, CC … Continue reading
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