Derby City Council has highlighted how a nine-year collaborative partnership scheme between Historic England, the Council and local retailers to revive Derby’s historic shopping streets is celebrating success. The scheme has brought 2,800 square metres of floor space back into use, created 42 new jobs, …

79 projects will receive funding to support building up to 7,280 homes on council owned land. A £45 million cash injection into key community projects will help kick-start the building of thousands of new homes, Housing Minister Dominic Raab announced today.

Church spires across the UK will be used to boost digital connectivity in rural areas following an agreement between the Government and the Church of England. Clear guidance set out by both the Church and Historic England is intended to ensure that any telecoms infrastructure …

This House of Lords Library Briefing provides a summary of the debate in the House of Commons on 31 January 2018 on the Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster, ahead of the corresponding debate in the House of Lords.

Historic England provides short training courses as a way of building skills capacity in the heritage sector. Until recently Historic England worked in partnership with the University of Leicester to deliver the most technical and specialist subjects, though its Heritage Practice programme. From 2018/19 Historic …

The Commons Library has published a briefing on progress on implementing the provisions of the Housing and Planning Act 2016 (HPA 2016). A number of the Act’s planning measures are in force, including those relating to neighbourhood and local planning and permission in principle and …

London is a step closer to becoming the world’s first National Park City as the idea has now secured the backing not just of the Mayor of London and members of the London Assembly but a majority of London’s 654 local council ward teams – …

Secretary of State Michael Gove gave a speech to the NFU Farming Conference 2018 which further elaborated on his view on the future of farming subsidies. He noted that the ‘landscapes which draw tourists, from the Lake District to Dartmoor, the Northumberland coast to Pembrokeshire, …

Liverpool Council, together with government and Historic England, has drafted a Desired State of Conservation Report (DSOCR) which describes the corrective measures Liverpool is proposing to protect the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the site which the city hopes will persuade UNESCO to remove the …

The Architecture Schools Database is a new free-to-access digital platform designed to showcase the work of architecture schools from across the world. It provides a searchable aggregator of the design studios and research projects being undertaken in schools where architecture is taught in English. The …

Historic England has published ‘The British Mosque’ which presents the first overview of Muslim architecture in Britain, from the earliest examples in the late 19th century, to the mosques being built today. Key architectural stages are identified and explained alongside the social history of Muslim …

Arts Minister, Michael Ellis, has placed a temporary export bar on The Destruction of Pharaoh’s Host, by the British artist John Martin (1789-1854), to provide an opportunity to keep it in the country. The watercolour is at risk of being exported from the UK unless …