Skip to main content
Planning and housing data in England

Beta This is a new service - your feedback (opens in new tab) will help us to improve it.

Local authority

Colchester City Council

About this entity

Fact links
CURIE local-authority:COL no fact link
Prefix local-authority Facts about Prefix
Reference COL Facts about Reference
Name Colchester City Council Facts about Name
Quality Some: We have some data from an alternative source no fact link
Dataset Local authority no fact link
Organisation Colchester City Council no fact link
Start date Facts about Start date
End date Facts about End date
Entry date 2025-02-19 Facts about Entry date
Typology organisation no fact link
Notes As part of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II celebrations in 2022, the borough of Colchester was granted city status, confirmed by Letters Patent dated 5 September 2022, allowing the council to change its name to Colchester City Council Facts about Notes
Region statistical-geography:E12000006 Facts about Region
Website https://www.colchester.gov.uk Facts about Website
Wikidata Q73072586 Facts about Wikidata
Wikipedia City_of_Colchester Facts about Wikipedia
Billing authority E1536 Facts about Billing authority
Local authority type NMD Facts about Local authority type
Parliament thesaurus 20998 Facts about Parliament thesaurus
Addressbase custodian 1530 Facts about Addressbase custodian
Statistical geography E07000071 Facts about Statistical geography
Local resilience forum essex Facts about Local resilience forum
Open Data Communities URI http://opendatacommunities.org/id/district-council/colchester Facts about Open Data Communities URI
Local Authority District E07000071 Facts about Local Authority District
Local planning authority E60000159 Facts about Local planning authority

Contents 

{
        "entry-date": "2025-02-19",
        "start-date": "",
        "end-date": "",
        "entity": 91,
        "name": "Colchester City Council",
        "dataset": "local-authority",
        "typology": "organisation",
        "reference": "COL",
        "prefix": "local-authority",
        "organisation-entity": 91,
        "geometry": "",
        "point": "",
        "quality": "some",
        "notes": "As part of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II celebrations in 2022, the borough of Colchester was granted city status, confirmed by Letters Patent dated 5 September 2022, allowing the council to change its name to Colchester City Council",
        "region": "statistical-geography:E12000006",
        "website": "https://www.colchester.gov.uk",
        "wikidata": "Q73072586",
        "wikipedia": "City_of_Colchester",
        "billing-authority": "E1536",
        "local-authority-type": "NMD",
        "parliament-thesaurus": "20998",
        "addressbase-custodian": "1530",
        "statistical-geography": "E07000071",
        "local-resilience-forum": "essex",
        "opendatacommunities-uri": "http://opendatacommunities.org/id/district-council/colchester",
        "local-authority-district": "E07000071",
        "local-planning-authority": "E60000159"
    }

© Crown copyright and database right 2026

Licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0.

Help improve this data

Give feedback on this dataset, or email your questions and corrections to digitalland@communities.gov.uk.