The IHBC’s free NewsBlog service is a unique resource informing and documenting cross-sector (and across-sector) news relevant to built and historic environment conservation professionals, but as content is carefully prioritised or can go out of date, not all features make it to our bi-weekly alerts and archive, so let us know if there’s any items listed that you think we should have used.
… to hear more on any [NewsBlogs], let us know…
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘Supported by consultant Mona O’Rourke, we collate the news content on a weekly basis, pretty much 52 weeks a year. Selections are then sent out to subscribers on twice-weekly email alerts, with short headlines and summaries so users can click on the link to the full news post if they want.’
‘Below is a list of news headlines from 2019-20 that have not – at least as yet, or in the form listed here – made it to our weekly alerts or archive.’
‘If you think you want to hear more on any, let us know by emailing newsblog@ihbc.org.uk.’
… IHBC’s CPD Boost in pics: RIBA on Eric de Maré…
… Unison: ‘Army’ of council workers lost to austerity cuts…
…Historic monument that was smashed to pieces…
… A sky bar overlooking the Mersey…
… What has happened to Woolworths’ stores 10 years after closure…
Unused NewsBlog headings, in draft and without prejudice:
- Government backs industry guidance to avoid disputes
- Architecture at the crossroads: a collection of BBC programmes examining the triumphs and failures of post-war architecture.
- Planners refute ‘abuse of democracy’ allegation
- What cities can learn from lockdown about planning for life after the coronavirus pandemic
- Homes through the ages – Exploring our built heritage
- Planning Inspectorate casework continues as first pilot digital hearing to take place in May
- Learning from lockdown: Why placemaking should be at the centre of the recovery
- Campaigners take legal action over £27bn UK road-building scheme
- IHBC Signpost: New on Reading Design: Exercise in Modernity by Paulo Mendes de Rocha
- One-way Shambles: how York is trying to keep its narrow streets safe
- Bompas & Parr invites the design community to develop aesthetic and functional approach to hand sanitising
- Consultation Institute flags Court of Appeal decision concerning the right to consult
- IHBC signpost DBW article: ‘Types of building’
- IHBC’s CPD Boost in pics: RIBA on Eric de Maré – ‘one of Britain’s most influential architectural photographers’ – and more!
- The multimillionaire’s plan to reinvent a town
- Housing Secretary clamps down on shoddy housebuilder
- Planning appeal decisions could be cut by 5 months
- RICS releases video – How buildings will save the world
- Twenty four reasons historic preservation is good for your community
- CIC publishes new procedure to make adjudication affordable for low value disputes
- WSP research highlights significance of retrofit in achieving UK’s 2050 net zero targets, improving social fabric and benefitting occupants’ wellbeing
- IHBC CPD boost on accessibility: How access statements can highlight best practice within your building
- Three easy ways to improve engagement and consultation on social media
- Paris is changing… into a ‘15-minute-city’ as arrondissements become self-sufficient communities
- NAO report published ‘Managing infrastructure projects on nuclear-regulated sites’
- IHBC signpost: MCCIP publishes article on impacts of climate change on cultural heritage
- Group claim complexity of planning process hinders community engagement
- Destroying cultural heritage is an attack on humanity’s past and present – it must be prevented
- Alternative vision for Anglia Square, including sky garden, mooted at inquiry
- Crispin Truman: Six key learnings from CPRE’s transformation process
- ‘Oldham’s mills are the equivalent of cathedrals’: Griff Rhys Jones’ passionate plea to preserve our Victorian heritage
- Think Tank Centre for London publishes new report ‘Building for a New Urban Mobility’
- Council takes first steps towards car-free Brighton city centre
- BEFS & Scottish Government NPF4/SPP Roundtable 14th January 2020
- English Housing Survey 2018 to 2019: headline report
- Planning and Architecture business plan 2019 to 2020: in-year review
- Daniel Libeskind: ‘Frank Lloyd Wright inspired me to go beyond the obvious’
- Multi-million-pound culture boost for children in schools
- Signpost: Wiki Glossary of construction slang and other terms
- Good community engagement leads to successful projects
- War Memorials Trust grants support repair and conservation works
- IMHO piece: We can’t rely on shops to revive our town centres. They need a new magnet
- County farms, council-run farms that can act as training grounds for new farmers, are trying new ways to farm and be sustainable.
- Concerns raised over Centra Plaza Hotel demolition safety
- Competition to find the Emerging Engineer of the Year opens
- Ex Atkins CEO: Six ways construction could decarbonise
- Two share this year’s Duke of Gloucester Award
- Newton on Trent Garden Village a first for rural sustainability
- The discovery of an ancient complex in Thessaloniki ignites old debates
- New Arup report reveals best and worst scenarios for the future of our planet
- Unison: ‘Army’ of council workers lost to austerity cuts
- IMHO piece by John Quinton Barber on authentic approach to planning application consultation
- Historic Gosport fort goes back on the market for £5.5m after failed development
- Fire at former Bilston Technical College site treated as suspected arson
- Pagabo invests in SMEs to shape the future of construction
- NAO publishes report on Investigation into Starter Homes
- Redesigning parliament to help end the Brexit deadlock
- Social value in architecture and construction
- 128 firms share in £30bn government framework
- Bristol University: Student accommodation plan criticised
- SAVE urges planners to re-think infill plan for Liverpool’s historic docks
- Grafton Architects will receive RIBA Gold Medal 2020
- The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the UK’s best new building :
- Planning appeals: procedural guide updated
- Principality Commercial Finances Regeneration Of Historic Cardiff Bay Development
- Historic monument that was smashed to pieces by drunk Army driver to be rebuilt.
- Enormous’ block of flats at Terry’s get green light – despite objections by the National Trust and Historic England
- Missing Banksy piece in Dover – Charlie Elphicke MP blames Historic England
- Opinion piece: This is what’s causing Edinburgh’s housing crisis –Professor Cliff Hague
- Legal landscape: Local authorities should consult with communities as early as possible
- How Britain could benefit from building upwards
- The Giger Bar: Discover the 1980s Tokyo Bar
- Maps reveal where tourists and locals take photos in cities
- Mayor calls for changes to business rates to save high streets
- DBW: Living Roofs and Walls, from policy to practice
- Four years ago, an art historian, Andrew Tallon, used lasers to digitally map Notre Dame Cathedral.
- Work begins to protect Northampton’s Eleanor Cross from the elements
- Contractor appointed to demolish Aberdeen school
- Historic hall in Lee, near Ellesmere, given approval for extension
- Oxford hall to make use of former St Giles’ bank
- Tenby ‘Town Walls Preservation Trust’ project moving along
- How Manchester’s most secretive building has been transformed into a food and drink destination
- Northwich artist shines spotlight on town’s historic buildings
- What a Westminster bubble! Plans for their £175million stand-in home while the Commons is refurbished
- Plague house is preserved as a listed building in Grantham
- Oldest riding school in England getting makeover
- Graphic designer Abram Games commemorated with London blue plaque
- Aggregate industries helps bring historic mill back to former glory
- Partnership to enable development of derelict Birmingham site
- Global giant Netflix to set up UK base in Kent
- A sky bar overlooking the Mersey could be coming to a derelict Liverpool landmark
- … NAO on whether the apprenticeships levy provides value for money
- ‘Health is greater than history’ an introduction to Edinburgh’s social housing, 1890-1945
- What has happened to Woolworths’ stores 10 years after closure?
- The Queen’s Paradox- how did a University prompt the conservation movement, and how does it care for its buildings today?
- Chilling discovery: ice house found under London street
- Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York
- Our buildings make this heatwave worse – here’s how to cool them down
- IHBC 2018 Belfast School reflections: Spotlight on IHBC-led RoI’s scoping survey of local authority conservation services
- Planning Delivery Fund: prospectus
- IHBC’s recent Jobs etc update! 6 posts up to £150,000+ specified salaries
- IHBC social media network passes 16000: adding 20%+ in a year, and 100% in 3!
- Grants from the Castle Studies Trust
- Blending the old and the new- how and why (and why not)?
- High Street Heroes Awards Announced in Scotland
- Construction Declares Climate and Biodiversity Emergency
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