Daily Archives: 08/01/2021

IHBC’s first CPD Circular for 2021 now out: Accessible cross-sector learning support, with career, awards and more opportunities too!

The IHBC’s first CPD Circular of 2021 has been issued, ‘providing our members and their networks with up-to-date information on continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities and information’, alongside our signposting to ‘Awards, Placements, Bursaries & Scholarships, and Calls for Papers’.

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IHBC responds to HE’s Advice Note HEAN 7 (2nd edition) on Local Heritage Listing

The IHBC has submitted its response to Historic England’s (HE’s) HEAN 7 (Historic England Advice Note 7 (Second Edition) on Local Heritage Listing: Identifying and Conserving Local Heritage, which will supersede the 2016 edition and reflect the changes made to … Continue reading

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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £198+K costed works: Scottish museum seeks PM, closing 20/01, valued £60K

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’: Part of Imperial War Museum, Duxford, among the youngest of listed buildings

Part of the Imperial War Museum, the American Air Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire – Europe’s largest air museum and Britain’s best-preserved Second World War airfield – has been included in Grade II* listing, even though technically too recent.

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IHBC CPD research signpost: Green Recovery from Covid-19, and alignment with Scottish Government Plans, from the SPDP

Green recovery seeks to achieve the dual aims of lifting an economy out of recession, and society out of a crisis, alongside protecting and improving the environment, according to a briefing from the Scottish Parliament Digital Publications (SPDP) which sets … Continue reading

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MHCLG: £830M funding boost for high streets

Funding from the Future High Streets Fund to help 72 areas in England to recover from the pandemic and deliver ambitious regeneration plans, the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) has announced. image: Open Government Licence v3.0

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AIA condemns executive order mandating design preference for federal architecture

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) will work with President-Elect Biden to reverse the executive order ‘Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture’, signed by President Trump.

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Developers yet to seek planning permission for 1Million+ homes already allocated in local plans– LGA research

A new Local Government Association (LGA) analysis, compiled following a survey of council heads of planning, estimates that more than a third (1,003,600) of the 2,676,200 homes allocated in current local plans in England have not even been submitted into … Continue reading

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TCI: English planning reforms reduces residents’ rights to be consulted!

The Consultation Institute (TCI) has responded to the Government’s consultation on Planning for the Future in England.

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CHN on ‘2020 in Review’, as the Climate Heritage Network turns 1 year old

As the international link body Climate Heritage Network (CHN) turns 1 year old, it has reported back on 2020.

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Don’t forget: England’s Heritage Heroes nominations close 11/01

Ecclesiastical’s Heritage Heroes Awards nominations are closing on 11 January, with three award categories: ‘Heritage In Lockdown Hero’, ‘Supporting the Sector in Lockdown’, and ‘Digital Heritage Hero’.

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Art of Building finalists revealed

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has revealed the 15 finalists in its Art of Building Photographer of the Year competition.

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