Steve Holliday, former chief executive of National Grid plc, has completed hisindependent review of Full-Time Social Action – currently defined as 16 hours a week or more, for 6 months or more. This considered what the voluntary sector, industry and, if needed, Government can do to …
Government responds to Taylor review of modern working practices
The Government has published the ‘Good Work plan’ which comes in response to the independent Taylor Review, published last year. The review investigated what impact modern working practices are having on the world of work.The proposals include: enforcing vulnerable workers’ holiday and sick pay for the first …
Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief
HMRC has published Guidance on Museums and Galleries Exhibition Tax Relief.
Historic England launches in-house training courses
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 England is piloting its own …
MPs vote to leave Houses of Parliament during refit
The Commons approved a motion calling for a “full and timely decant”, designed to allow essential repairs, by 236 votes to 220. The planned move, part of a proposed £5.6bn modernisation, will not take effect until 2025 at the earliest. During the debate Lord Inglewood, Conservative, president …
Local authority development – effect of planning permission
The Government will proceed with a proposal in the housing white paper (question 5) to allow all local authorities to dispose of land with the benefit of planning permission they have granted themselves. The Government has published a summary of the responses received and its own response. …
Housing Debate
Dominic Raab, Minister of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government stated that the Government will be consulting on changes to the NPPF to reduce obstacles to home building. ‘As the House will know from the Secretary of State’s statement, we intend to consult on changes, for …
Government to allow building up on existing buildings
The Government has said it will make it easier to build upwards on existing blocks of flats and houses as well as shops and offices in cities like London and Manchester. For example, an additional 2 levels could be added to a property – provided it was …
February #Heritage Chat – Diversity!
The next #HeritageChat will be on 15 February 13.00-14.00 on the theme of Diversity in the Historic Environment Sector. A year ago, members of the Heritage 2020 working groups took part in a workshop on the same theme – working with a number of ‘critical …
CRSBI joins the Heritage Alliance
The Heritage Alliance is delighted to welcome The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture (CRSBI) as a new member. The CRSBI is a complete online record of all the surviving Romanesque sculpture in Britain and Ireland, at more than 5000 sites. Launched with British Academy support in 1988, CRSBI …
Breaking Ground Heritage (BGH) joins The Heritage Alliance
We are delighted to welcome Breaking Ground Heritage (BGH) as a new affiliate member of the Heritage Alliance. BGH use archaeology and heritage based projects, to promote wellbeing and recovery to serving and veteran personnel, suffering physical and /or psychological traumas. They also provide support …
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