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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
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Royal High School Edinburgh set to become ‘world-class centre for music’
The Royal High School Preservation Trust has put forward detailed proposals to the City of Edinburgh Council for the iconic Thomas Hamilton building on Calton Hill to be restored as a ‘world-class centre for music education and public performance.’, writes … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh’s Royal High School – Preservation Trust ditches Music School plan
The former Royal High School will not be used as a site for St Mary’s Music School in a major change to plans by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, reports The Edinburgh Reporter. image: for illustration – Fiona Newton
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Edinburgh’s Royal High School to become ‘£55M national centre for music’
The former Royal High School building in Edinburgh is to be transformed into a £55 million national centre for music after the City of Edinburgh Council agreed to the lease of the historic property. image: Cockburn Association
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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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IHBC’s HESPR ‘Special Interest Sector News’ pick of the week: SCN on Edinburgh’s Royal High School – ‘… back on the market’
The 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’, with news from across the development sector, and this week features Scottish Construction … Continue reading
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Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School hotel proposals dismissed by Scottish Ministers
In a significant win for the heritage lobby the Scottish Government dismissed appeals into the proposed redevelopment as a hotel of Thomas Hamilton’s Category A listed 1825 Royal High School on Calton Hill, Edinburgh, with the main report dismissing any … Continue reading
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CrowdJustice platform pioneered to ‘crowdfund’ coalition of opposition to Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School hotel plans
Plans for a new hotel on the site of Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School, on iconic Calton Hill, are being opposed by the city and national institutions, but with a new appeal in place following two refusals a coalition of … Continue reading
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IHBC 2016 School update: Edinburgh councillors unanimously reject Royal High School hotel plans
Delegates from the IHBC’s 2016 School in Worcester will remember the lively debate around Edinburgh’s heritage and commercial and hotel development, led by BEFS Director Euan Leitch and architect James Simpson, and may be especially interested to hear that even … Continue reading
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Edinburgh Royal High School: New developments for preservation
A newly formed Scottish charitable trust has submitted proposals to the City of Edinburgh Council to restore the Old Royal High School, one of the most important buildings within Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site as a new home for St Mary’s … Continue reading
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Decade of development ‘has saved Edinburgh’s built heritage’
Only two Category ‘A’ listed buildings will remain ‘at risk’ in Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site once current or planned restoration work is complete – down 14 from a decade ago – according to new figures released today by the City … Continue reading
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IHBC features ‘Heritage from the doorstep’: Edinburgh urged to stop building new hotels and ‘reimagine’ a different future
The old Royal High School on Calton Hill has been one of Edinburgh’s most recognisable landmarks for nearly 200 years, reports The Edinburgh News, so the response to the long-awaited ruling from ministers into its proposed £75 million transformation into … Continue reading
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Grand Bequest: Could this new app be the key to saving Edinburgh’s crumbling and at-risk historic buildings?
Grand Bequest aims to make it easier for people who are concerned about a building to join together, crowdfund, buy and restore it. image: Edinburgh Live website (Tom Parnell / Flickr / Creative Commons)
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Ministers asked to intervene in Edinburgh luxury hotel dispute
City councillors rejected plans to a build ‘six-star’ hotel around the Category-A listed Royal High School in Edinbrugh after public objections, so the developers have asked Scottish ministers to intervene.
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IHBC strategic update: Edinburgh WHS in the news
Recent media reports have once again been voicing opinions on the planning applications affecting the City of Edinburgh World Heritage Sites – focus of much of the IHBC’s Annual School in 2014 – with a major planning application for the … Continue reading
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IHBC’s school – SG’s Culture Sec on responses to the GSA Fire
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs in the Scottish Government (SG), delivered a keynote speech at the IHBC summer school in Edinburgh that included a heartfelt statement on the government response to the recent Glasgow School of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Vice Chair congratulates Simpson and Brown team on joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success
The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s Vice Chair congratulates Simpson and Brown team on joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award success
The IHBC has warmly congratulated Laure Emery, Nicholas Uglow, Christian Clarkson and James Legard of the Simpson & Brown Heritage Consultancy Team on winning the second joint SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award for their research into the history and development of … Continue reading
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IHBC’s EDI signpost for Women’s History Month: The women who shaped British modernism… from Context and the ‘People Wiki’
Women architects did much to shape the nature of the profession itself and played a major role in the modernism that defined the architecture of the 20th century, as highlighted by a Context article from 2022 recently featured on Designing … Continue reading
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Serious about your career? Sign up to IHBC’s ‘Jobs etc.’, for diverse opportunities across roles and disciplines – spotlighting building and estate care for #IHBCReading2024
To help connect employers’ needs and practitioners’ skills, the IHBC regularly updates NewsBlog readers about the wide-ranging opportunities on our ‘IHBC Jobs etc.’ service, so be sure to sign up for free alerts and ‘stay ahead’ with the our unique … Continue reading
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Reminder: New IHBC research resource for 2023 and #IHBC25: ‘…connect conservation practice and research as we plan our ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’
This NewsBlog kickstarts plans for our new ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’ in this anniversary year, #IHBC25, to help connect research and conservation practice, as we seek views, feedback, suggestions and ideas on a first draft for Issue 1.
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New IHBC research resource for 2023 and #IHBC25: ‘Help us connect conservation practice and research as we plan our ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’
This NewsBlog kickstarts plans for our new ‘IHBC Research for Practice Digest’ in this anniversary year, #IHBC25, to help connect research and conservation practice, as we seek views, feedback, suggestions and ideas on a first draft for Issue 1.
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IHBC Signpost: HES boost for communities as Scottish heritage projects awarded funding
Recent Historic Environment Scotland (HES) Support Fund recipients include a project to celebrate the oldest elm tree in Europe. image: HES
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TrailTale is an app for discovering new heritage cities, towns and villages places in Great Britain
TrailTale is an app for discovering new places and interesting points in Great Britain, tied especially to heritage cities, towns and villages.
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IHBC’s September Branch Events Update: Explore Branch CPD events across the UK
Autumn brings a torrent of new branch events across the UK including preparation for next year’s school in Brighton. This month’s features include: West Midlands Branch – The Sleeping Beauty Awakes: Visit Pitchford Hall 17 Sep South Branch – Forget … Continue reading
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EH: Bob Marley named among new blue plaque recipients for 2019
English Heritage (EH) has revealed some of this year’s blue plaques to commemorate notable people of the past who have lived and worked in London, including a reggae singing sensation, a pioneering war correspondent and an award-winning novelist will receive … Continue reading
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