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- 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
- IHBC’s next OPEN & FREE ‘Management’ CPD Pre-School webinars for #IHBCReading2024 School theme, ‘Place & Building Care…’: ‘Enforcement’ (03/05) and ‘Munstead Wood’ estate (16/05) 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s ‘Research’ signpost: ICE advice for engineers to close the gender pay gap following on RAE research 19/04/2024
- 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 19/04/2024
- New closing date of 30 April for IHBC’s two Marsh Awards: ‘civic contributions by retired members’ and ‘successful learners’ 19/04/2024
- ‘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!’ 19/04/2024
- IHBC’s HESPR pick from £112K+ works this week: Heritage team seeks engineering services for canal restoration, £70K, to 10/05 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Claim – Torbay’s planning rules are being flouted due to lack of enforcement 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Proposals for £65m University Centre Blackpool set for decision 19/04/2024
- Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks 19/04/2024
- Joint statement on England’s Natural and Historic Environment published by NE, HE and Lottery: ‘Integrating the Management of the Natural and Historic Environment’ 19/04/2024
- Architects etc. – Professional Practical Experience Commission – Call for evidence, to 24/04 19/04/2024
- Office for Place Update: Free Places at 2024 Design Code Schools for LPA officers 19/04/2024
- IHBC features ‘Heritage from the global doorstep’: European Architecture Prize Philippe Rotthier 2024, closing 30/04. 19/04/2024
Monthly Archives: December 2021
IHBC’s HESPR pick from £500K+ works this week: DC seeks tenders re. conservation skills, closing 04/01, valued to £17K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from this week is the call from … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Swindon’s iconic dome gets GII listed status from Historic England
Swindon’s Oasis Leisure Centre has been given Grade II listed status after a year-long campaign to save it after landlord Seven Capital revealed plans to rebuild, but removing the dome and lagoon, reports The Swindon Advertiser.
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Victorian Society’s 2021 Top 10 Endangered Buildings now out
The Victorian Society has issued its ‘Top Ten Endangered Building List for 2021’.
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Don’t forget: England’s Heritage Heroes nominations close 23/01/2022
Insurer Ecclesiastical celebrated the incredible contribution of volunteers across the sector with its yearly Heritage Hero award, which is now open and with nominations closing on 23 January 2022.
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Christmas funding boost for 47 churches: £473K+
The Christmas funding package from the National Churches Trust (The NCT) is our third and final funding round in 2021, with 47 churches across the UK are being helped with grants totalling £473,000. image: for illustration purposes only
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Environment Agency: c.1.5M homes in UK at risk of flooding
As many as 1.5 million households in the UK are at risk of flooding but are yet to take any action, the Environment Agency has said.
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Kickstart Scheme: HM Government’s advice on filling vacancies
The Department of Work and Pensions has offered five tips to fill your kickstart vacancy swiftly and successfully.
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Hedgehog highway solves prickly issue at Lanark station
Network Rail Scotland has put hedgehog-friendly solutions in place at Lanark station to allow the little creatures to move freely in and around railway property. image: By Gibe, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29948
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IHBC’s new ‘HESPR News’ feature update: Director’s selection for this month, from RICS review to Swindon’s ‘Flying Saucer’
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, while the Director’s occasional news listing feature this week offers its members links to updates from … Continue reading
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IHBC’s next ‘Scoop for the School’ for 2022: Councillors approve ‘transformative’ regeneration of Aberdeen city centre, market and beachfront
The pedestrianisation of Union Street Central, the creation of a new city market, and the revitalisation of the beach area, with plans for a pier, new green hub, and a state-of-the-art sports area have been approved by Aberdeen City Council, … Continue reading
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IHBC Signpost: Local Area Guidance, The Heritage Fund’s ‘priority outcome’
The Heritage Fund offers guidance designed to help people meet its priority outcome: the local area.
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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’: Archdaily on ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’
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’, and this week features Archdaily highlighting ‘5 Art Movements that Influenced Architecture’ alongside our … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the Charity’s doorstep’: Preservation charity shut down after trustees found using funds for personal benefit
Trustees at the Manor Building Preservation Trust used the charity’s funds to live in a mansion rent-free, to buy high-end cars and give each other salaries of over £128,000, Civil Society reports via the Charity Commission.
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Gove ‘a bit of a catch’ for housing ministry, says former chief architect to BD
Michael Gove is ‘a bit of a catch’ for the renamed Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, the former chief architect has said, as Gove’s early planning decisions suggest ‘beauty remains high on new secretary of state’s agenda’. image: … Continue reading
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BRE report finds poor housing is costing NHS £1.4bn a year
A new BRE report – ‘The Cost of Poor Housing in England’ – quantifies the cost burden to the NHS caused by hazards arising from poor quality homes in England, and reveals that 2.6 million homes in England – 11% … Continue reading
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DCMS/AHRC: Research captures and enhances value of UK culture and heritage
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) will support a new study to measure the value of UK culture and heritage.
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Trust in local government stayed strong during pandemic, researchers find
The public placed more trust in local authorities than national government in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the findings of a new survey reported by Local Gov. image: for illustration purposes only – Fiona Newton
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AHF publishes Annual Review 2020/21
The Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF) Annual Review details some of its work this year delivering strategic objectives while providing an insight into a number of AHF supported projects across the UK.
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When the Colosseum in Rome Became the Home of Hundreds of Exotic Plant Species
The Colosseum is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Italy, and thus one of the most popular tourist attractions in all of Europe. But the nature of its appeal to its many visitors has changed over the centuries. … Continue reading
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IHBC Gus Astley Student Award judge: Ian Morrison OBE (HE Exec & past CEO AHF) to select winner of £500 prize (& IHBC 2022 Aberdeen School’s first delegate)!
Ian Morrison OBE, Director of Policy and Evidence on the Executive Team at Historic England (HE) and past CEO of the Architectural Heritage Fund (AHF), will be our guest judge for the 2021 IHBC Gus Astley Student Award, with winners … Continue reading
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IHBC says: ‘Please check your contact details, for the Yearbook and more, by 17/12’
The IHBC is calling on all members to check and update the contact details we hold, before 17/12.
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IHBC Practice signpost: Retrofitting a pre-1919 Scottish Housing Association tenement in a 21st century revamp
A ‘pioneering retrofit of a pre-1919 tenement to Passivhaus standards’, by Southside Housing Association in Glasgow, is reported on by Scottish Construction Now. image for illustration purposes only – Thomas Nugent / Dudley Drive https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Dudley_Drive_-_geograph.org.uk_-_580164.jpg
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IHBC’s HESPR pick from £115K+ works this week: DC seeks tenders re. conservation skills, closing 17/12, valued £15K
The IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance service – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and the Director’s pick this week features the call from this week is the call from … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Controversy as solar panels are approved for Edinburgh Castle
A row has escalated at Edinburgh Castle between the castle’s operators and city residents after heritage bosses won a battle to install solar panels on Edinburgh Castle in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint, reports The Herald Scotland. image: … Continue reading
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Pilot scheme on ‘inclusive ways to empower’ communities across England and Scotland: £125K funding, closing 3 Jan 2022!
‘Outreach to Ownership’, an cross-border research pilot funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and run by Historic England (HE) and Historic Environment Scotland (HES) is seeking applications by 3 January.
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