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- IHBC applauds North Branch and RTPI NE partnership ‘Joint Summer CPD event’: 5 June, from only £40, inc. lunch etc. 26/03/2024
- TIME IS RUNNING OUT: But bursaries are still open for CPD on finance to law at #IHBCReading2024 – ‘Submit by 31/03 to be first on the list!’ 26/03/2024
- CLOSING SOON: IHBC seeks nominations for Marsh Awards 2024: ‘Retired IHBC Members’ and/or ‘Successful Learners’ – Closing 31 March 2024 26/03/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: HESPR member update for #IHBCReading2024 – FREE webinar ‘Six simple steps to social media’, for IHBC’s 2024 School 26/03/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the (skateboard) park’: Livingston Skatepark is now officially a listed structure! 26/03/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Historic Welsh pub to reopen, with urinal, after rebuild 10 miles down the road 26/03/2024
- Lord Parkinson’s speech at Heritage Day, hosted by The Heritage Alliance 26/03/2024
- Changes to various permitted development rights in England: to 09/04 26/03/2024
- An accelerated planning system in England: Consultation on new application route, charges, expanding appeals & more, to 01/05 26/03/2024
- Stonehenge tunnel Campaigners lose High Court challenge 26/03/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global (and local) doorstep’: Immersive exhibition on Notre Dame de Paris at Westminster Abbey to 01/06 26/03/2024
- IHBC welcomes MFL as Principal Sponsor for 2024 Reading Annual School, #IHBCReading2024, 12/13-15 June, from £30+VAT (online Day School & recording) 22/03/2024
- IHBC highlights CMA finding of ‘fundamental concerns in GB housebuilding market’… ‘under-resourced planning depts’ & ‘privatisation of public amenities’ etc. 22/03/2024
- IHBC welcomes South-East Branch Day School and AGM 2024: ‘Levelling Up our World Heritage’ Canterbury, 26/04, from £35 22/03/2024
- TIME IS RUNNING OUT: But bursaries are still open for CPD on finance to law at #IHBCReading2024 – ‘Submit by 31/03 to be first on the list!’ 22/03/2024
- CLOSING SOON: IHBC seeks nominations for Marsh Awards 2024: ‘Retired IHBC Members’ and/or ‘Successful Learners’ – Closing 31 March 2024 22/03/2024
- IHBC’s EDI signpost for Women’s History Month: The women who shaped British modernism… from Context and the ‘People Wiki’ 22/03/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £900K+ works this week: DC seeks landscape architect/urban designer for street projects, to 16/04 22/03/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Group wants to save ‘fortified brutalism’ on Conwy’s skyline that others call a ‘carbuncle’ 22/03/2024
- Scope and options tabled for delivery of Palace of Westminster restoration: More time needed so next government decides… 22/03/2024
- RICS launches pioneering new standard on retrofitting practices across the UK 22/03/2024
- Scotland’s Climate Change Committee: 2030 climate goals are no longer credible 22/03/2024
- Ecclesiastical’s 2023 Heritage Heroes announced 22/03/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: Charter report on ‘…innovative/emerging cultural heritage education & training…’ 22/03/2024
- IHBC’s December CONTEXT now online, on ‘Buildings in the countryside’: Vernacular survivals; Rural buildings at risk; Tithe barn meanings, Urban fringes and even Zen! 19/03/2024
Daily Archives: 09/07/2021
IHBC Marsh Awards 2021 now out: John Gerrard and George Holloway take home top prizes
Judges in the sixth year of the IHBC Marsh Awards, for Community Contribution (Retired Member) and Successful Learning in Heritage Skills, are delighted to announce the 2021 awards.
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IHBC marked Culture Recovery Fund’s 1-year anniversary on 5 July: #HereForCulture
On behalf of the IHBC, Chair David McDonald has marked the Culture Recovery Fund’s 1-year anniversary helping ‘heritage organisations… contribute to the country’s economy and sense of well-being’. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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REMINDER: IHBC’s Gus Astley Student Awards 2021: Win £500 and a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School with your built environment/heritage coursework, closes 31/07!
The IHBC’s celebrated 2021 Gus Astley Student Awards closes to entries on 31 July, so if you have coursework from ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate, from 2020 OR 2021 – just submit it online and on time to have a chance … Continue reading
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Green Party calls for no VAT on refurb in new Parliamentary petition
A petition from Molly Scott Cato – the Green Party’s finance spokesperson – on the Downing Street website calls on the government to remove VAT on refurbishment projects and raise VAT on non-Passivhaus new-build construction to 20 per cent, with … Continue reading
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IHBC update on ‘how you would like to see the Palace of Westminster restored and renewed’ – only 6 days left!
Only 6 days are left to join have your say on how you would like to see the Palace of Westminster restored and renewed. Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £255K+ costed work: English national heritage body seeks lead to publish prehistoric marine framework, closing 4/08, valued £40-50K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from an English national heritage … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Former Harris meat factory mansion in Calne, Wilts, to be restored
The last remaining buildings on the site of the Harris meat factory family’s historic mansion in Calne, Wiltshire, are being restored to their former glory and converted into new homes, reports The Gazette and Herald.
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Robert Jenrick confirms a ‘higher threshold’ for article 4 directions that restrict permitted development rights
Secretary of State Robert Jenrick has announced a new ‘higher threshold’ for the use of article 4 directions, including being used only ‘to avoid wholly unacceptable adverse impacts’ or ‘to protect local amenity or the well-being of the area’, and … Continue reading
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UK’s first verification scheme for home retrofit launched
The National Energy Foundation (NEF) has launched the UK’s first verification scheme for home retrofits. image: for illustration purposes only
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New trade and building apprentice opportunities supported by HE & partners, across timber, stone, plaster and more!
Historic England (HE) and partners are offering new apprenticeship routes into the heritage sector, with special building-related opportunities ranging from carpentry & Joinery and stonemasonry and roofing. image: Historic England
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UKGBC industry survey on market drivers etc. for net zero carbon buildings verification scheme, closing 19/07
A UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) invites industry feedback on market drivers, expectations and characteristics for a potential net zero carbon buildings verification scheme through a survey that closes on 19 July.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 5PM 15 AUG 2021: England’s The Heritage Alliance seeks new Chair
The Heritage Alliance is looking for a Chair to lead the Board of Trustees and staff from Autumn 2021, to be formally appointed at our AGM in early 2022, with CV and cover due by 5pm 15 August 2021.
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Edinburgh puts former Royal High School on open market
The former Royal High School has been put on the open market by the City of Edinburgh Council for interested parties to submit development proposals in return for a long lease of the building. image: for illustration purposes only – … Continue reading
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