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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: 20/11/2020
DON’T FORGET VOTE BY PROXY even if joining in the IHBC’s 2020 AGM: ‘Help the IHBC move past the pandemic’ with our historic modernisation!
ALL IHBC members with a say at the online AGM on 3 December are called on to vote in advance ‘by proxy’, even if attending – votes during the AGM take precedence, so these can be changed on the day … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR listings reaches ‘50’ with Rock Davidson Associates: 50th practice on IHBC’s HESPR register of services
Rock Davidson Associates – a small experienced practice in the Midlands specialising in historic building assessments and historic building conservation – is the latest company to join the IHBC’s conservation and heritage services ‘HESPR’ quality assurance register, as membership of … Continue reading
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IHBC NewsBlog readers’ update from DBW on ‘Building People’: Focus on ‘diversity, skills, careers and social value’
Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW) – host platform for the IHBC’s Conservation Wiki as well as the ‘construction industry knowledge base’ – has developed a microsite focused on diversity, skills, careers and social value to help ‘make construction and the built … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick this week from £20K+ costed works: Welsh council calls for proposals linked to a country park development, closing 30/11
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’: Grimsby urban explorer uncovers ‘forgotten village’ in Lincolnshire woods
An urban explorer has uncovered a ‘forgotten village’ within a Lincolnshire woods, the Grimsby Telegraph has reported.
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Wales extends investment in decarbonising social housing: ORP for a green recovery
The Welsh Government has given the green light and a further £10M to a major new programme that will transform social housing across Wales, boost the economy and open the door to a new Welsh industry: the Optimised Retrofit Programme … Continue reading
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Wellcome Trust agrees £506m takeover of Urban & Civic
The Wellcome Trust has agreed a £506 million takeover of a London-listed developer that specialises in building huge developments in commuter hotspots on brownfield sites.
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CLC on England’s White Paper: Unlock ‘Levelling Up’ with ‘Fourth Zone’
The response to England’s Planning White Paper consultation the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has called for the creation of a so called ‘fourth zone’ that would unlock tricky regeneration opportunities that have been blocked by existing planning rules.
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FMB & partners: Government misses potential £15Bn economic boost and job creation without VAT relief
The Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has called on the Government cut VAT on home improvement works to 5% to boost jobs and stimulate the economy.
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HES: £194,349 awarded to coasts and waters heritage projects
Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has awarded funding to eighteen projects across the country. image: HES
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New charity launches with a mission to protect local nature, wildlife and heritage: ‘Habitats & Heritage’
On 5 November 2020 ‘Habitats & Heritage’, a new charity dedicated to looking after the natural and historic environment in south and west London has launched, a result of the merger of Environment Trust and South West London Environment Network … Continue reading
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New COTAC Newsletter now out
COTAC’s fourth Newsletter has been published, with news, updates and more from across COTAC and its networks, including heritage data, understanding conservation and climate change. Download the Newsletter here.
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Row over China’s plan to build its largest European embassy in London’s East End as consultation begins
China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming has written to the mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs to say he believes councillors are ‘attempting to disrupt’ the new embassy.
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