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- IHBC’s Context raids Hadrian’s Wall ‘end to end’ for #IHBCReading2024 themes: What happened… Cumbria’s vernacular… Bastles on the border… features (Ian Nairn!) & more 26/04/2024
- FREE CPD webinar: ‘Caring for buildings through effective enforcement’ (03/05) for #IHBCReading2024, with more to come 26/04/2024
- IHBC seeks Expressions of Interest (EoI) from Full Members as paid MATE session leads, initial closing 1 May 26/04/2024
- 2024 AGM, 30/04: Register for Pender’s special take on ‘energy in buildings’, & call on eligible members to complete votes by proxy 26/04/2024
- FINAL REMINDER: Closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 26/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s occasional selection, from 13/02 (& £1.3Mn costed works) 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: ‘Ron’s Place’ saved by mystery benefactor 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Couple hit with £6K court bill and told to tear down garden extension 26/04/2024
- Westminster Council’s new policy to make a ‘retrofit first’ city 26/04/2024
- Labour releases 5 -Point plan for high streets 26/04/2024
- REMINDER: England consults on accelerated planning system, ‘10 weeks and fee refunds’ for major commercial applications, to 01/05 26/04/2024
- Job Vacancy: General Secretary of ICOMOS-UK – Voluntary + expenses, closing 17 May 26/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Global doorstep’: Moulin Rouge: Sails fall off Paris’s famous cabaret club overnight 26/04/2024
- First ‘priority CPD’ guidance out for #IHBCReading2024 School, globally accessible from only £30+VAT: ‘Management’ Competences -‘Legislation & Policy’, ‘Finance & Economics’, 12/13-15 June 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ Signpost: Canal and River Trust on ‘Our impact: transforming places, enriching lives’ 23/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 23/04/2024
- 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 23/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest News’: ALL HESPR member staff get IHBC member rate at #IHBCReading2024 Virtual School, 14 June, only £30+VAT (Code required) 23/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversial demolition of closed Museum of London and office block expected 23/04/2024
- Intangible Cultural Heritage: UK becomes the 183rd State to join UNESCO’s Convention 23/04/2024
- HES: New Report on Connections Between Properties in Care and the British Empire 23/04/2024
- 10 New Design Code Pathfinder areas selected 23/04/2024
- BEFS Policy Map for Scotland’s Existing Built Environment Policy Overview Map, Spring 2024 23/04/2024
- Budget boost for farmers and environment with extension to Agricultural Property Relief 23/04/2024
- ADF announces its 2024 brief: ‘Rethinking Home-Adapt and Reuse’ 23/04/2024
Daily Archives: 20/08/2021
IHBC welcomes government call to shape the architectural profession – especially the chance to ‘put conservation at its heart’, closing 8/11
The IHBC has welcomed the opportunity to help shape the future of architecture, responding to the Housing Minister’s query on ‘what could be improved’ in regulating architects with a call ‘to put conservation at the heart of the architectural profession.’
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IHBC says ‘conserving our places conserves our planet’ as we respond to new IPCC report on climate change: ‘widespread, rapid’ and ‘unequivocally caused by human activities’
The IHBC has responded firmly to the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report – which highlights how climate change is intensifying – by highlighting the urgent need to care for our historic environment, as ‘conserving our places also conserves our planet’.
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REMINDER: Submit your coursework for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award by 31 AUGUST to win up to £500 & a place on IHBC’s 2022 Aberdeen School
Following calls from participating courses, the closing date for the IHBC’s annual Gus Astley Student Award is now 31 August, so relevant coursework submitted on ANY UK taught course – under-graduate or post-graduate – from 2020 OR 2021 may be submitted … Continue reading
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £6.6M + costed works this week: Council seeks open and green space strategy, closes 07/09, valued up to £60K
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 a city council for … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Website shares vision of new quarter at Grimsby’s Kasbah
A website has been launched to share vision of new cultural and business quarter at Grimsby’s Kasbah and aims to showcase what the regeneration project has to offer businesses, reports The Grimsby Telegraph.
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Chilterns Conservation Board makes formal complaint on AONB appeal decision as DC goes to High Court
South Oxfordshire District Council (DC) has announced that it will make an application to the High Court for a review of a Planning Inspector’s decision – criticised as ‘off-piste’ by the Chilterns Conservation Board – to allow a ‘care village’ … Continue reading
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TCPA: 80% of shops on high streets could be ‘lost’ to PDRs
New research from the Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) = ‘Our fragile high streets: Death by permitted development rights?’ – explores risks to high street posed by change of planning laws. image: for illustration purposes only – Open Government … Continue reading
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Scotland’s construction sector plays its part in refugee integration strategy
New funding has been granted to help Arabic speakers access certification to work in the Scottish construction industry. image for illustration purposes only
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England’s ‘National Model Design Code’ sets out design parameters
The National Model Design Code provides detailed guidance on the production of design codes, guides and policies to promote successful design. image: Open Government Licence v3.0
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HES consultations: Historic Environment Policy for Scotland, closing 31/08; Grant funding programmes, closing 6/09
HES is consulting on individual experiences of using Historic Environment Policy for Scotland (HEPS) – seeking as many responses as possible by 31/08, and on its grant funding programmes – asking for one response per organisation – closing 6 September.
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Zurich Insurance: 64,700+ substandard conversions could be uninhabitable as climate change worsens
Zurich Insurance fears substandard office to flat conversions could pose deadly risk from heatwaves as temperature becomes more extreme with Climate Change. image: for illustration purposes only
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