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The BBC has posted the story of Lorraine Watson’s chip shop – Carron fish bar in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire – which  has been badly flooded five times in 10 years, and asks ‘Is climate change a factor in Aberdeenshire’s repeated, devastating … Continue reading →

A developer planning to demolish most of a historic distillery to build 182 flats in the city centre will get a chance to convince councillors to back the project — despite planners calling for the scheme to be refused. image: … Continue reading →

The government has announced a new project to plant extensive woodlands along England’s riverbanks launched to improve water quality, manage flood risk and boost biodiversity. image: for illustration purposes only -P Badcock

The IHBC is delighted to support as sponsor the forthcoming COTAC conference on ‘Developing the skills, training, and expertise…’, to take place over two half-days on 23 and 24 November.

The IHBC@COP26 ‘Climate and Conservation’ Podcasts are the popular weekday anchors across our ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ service – already with 2.5K+ views via our own IHBC Podcast page and new Spotify and Amazon Music postings, with Apple and more to come.

The IHBC is supporting built and historic environment conservation at COP26 through our virtual ‘IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ to guide visitors and delegates to our resources, our members’ activities and our linked  partners and networks, because ‘Conserving our Places Conserves our Planet’.

The estimated cost of reversing the controversial infilling of a bridge in Great Musgrave, Cumbria, has tripled, as National Highways confirmed to New Civil Engineer (NCE) that the cost of reversing the infilling alone will come in between £80,000 to … Continue reading →

In March-May 2021 The National Trust (NT) published a ‘game changing’ map illustrating the threat climate change poses to some of its most iconic and culturally significant sites – and offered some solutions on how to tackle it.

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 the IHBC’s own notice on its IHBC@COP26 ‘Climate and Conservation … Continue reading →

The Northumberland National Park is participating in a national pilot scheme that will see historic farm buildings across the park be restored. image: for illustration purposes only – By Welcome to Northumberland by Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=106537212

The housing secretary Michael Gove has told the House of Commons that he ‘welcomed’ the idea of maintaining residents’ ability to comment on and influence individual planning applications, signalling a change of approach from a key proposal in the planning … Continue reading →

The importance of adapting local communities to make them more resilient in the face of the climate emergency is not being taken seriously enough, the Environment Agency has warned. image: for illustration purposes only

Over the coming weeks and months, ‘MHCLG’ (sic.) will be carrying out user research to support the planning reform programme. We’d love for you to sign up for our user research panel which means when we’re conducting research, you’ll be … Continue reading →

The Times is asking ‘Why are British houses so damp and mouldy?’, while noting that… ‘It’s easy to blame the climate, but there are other reasons why our homes are blighted by disturbing growths. image: for illustration purposes only – … Continue reading →

The IHBC@COP26 ‘Climate and Conservation’ Podcasts are the popular weekday anchors across our ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ service – already with 1650+ views via our own IHBC Podcast page and new Spotify and Amazon Music postings, with Apple and more to come.

In an important step forward for after IHBC@COP26, MP James Grundy has been elected as the new chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on ‘Conservation, Places and People’ (CPP APPG), succeeding Layla Moran MP who now serves as the APPG … Continue reading →

The IHBC@CP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ service has been added to the open resources of Designing Buildings (formerly Designing Buildings Wiki), and featured on its twice-weekly digital Newsletter to the 15000 registered users of the ‘construction wiki’.  

The current review of architects regulation is part of a wider review to make sure that the architectural profession is inclusive and progressive – echoing many IHBC@COP26 aspirations – and IHBC Members and other built and historic environment specialists and … Continue reading →

Join the IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ via our webpage to enjoy a special partnering Feature Host’ session from SPAB’s on its Old House Project, including Marianne Suhr and Jonny Garlick in ‘virtual discussion’ on ‘cutting edge sustainability practice for historic buildings’. … Continue reading →

The IHBC is delighted to support as sponsor the forthcoming COTAC conference on ‘Developing the skills, training, and expertise…’, to take place over two half-days on 23 and 24 November.

Weekends on the virtual ‘IHBC@COP26 ‘Conservation Helpdesk+’ focus on offering the most fundamental resources in the IHBC’s armoury of conservation principles and practice.

IHBC past Chair James Caird has explored Buckminster Fuller’s ‘real legacy’, in resource management – a theme central to the IHBC@COP26 programme – in the IHBC’s journal Context, with the article now also featured to the 15000 readers of the … Continue reading →

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 Invitation to … Continue reading →

Heritage partnership agreements — the voluntary agreements for the long-term management of scheduled monuments and listed buildings introduced by the Historic Environment (Wales) Act 2016 — will come into full effect in Wales on 1 January 2022.

Historic England has issued a report on how the historic environment of York, North Yorkshire and the East Riding can help achieve ‘Good Growth’, offering critical insights to IHBC@COP26 themes.