The Civic Trust promotes progressive improvements in the quality of urban life for communities throughout the United Kingdom.

Combining the strength of 73 societies in the East of England registered with the Civic Trust.

Heritage Open Days were held successfully in in September 2007 and preparations are already in hand for 2008. Read more on the linked website.

Quite the most interesting and comprehensive site we have seen about Colchester and its built and historic heritage.

View brief details of recent applications submitted to Colchester Borough Council and decisions reached.

A database of listed buildings in England, with pictures and full descriptions.

Gives access to a refined search facility on England's listed buildings. See also National Monuments.

This site brings together information about Colchester's four main regeneration projects.

Providing guidance on how the Licensing Act 2003 works from the perspective of residents and businesses who live and work alongside licensed premises.

Find out about Colchester's Award Winning Museums.

All the information for anyone visiting England's Oldest Recorded Town.

The first port of call for anyone who wants to find out about the planning system in England and Wales.

A site created by Jess Jephcott, a member of Colchester Town Watch, with pictures of the wall and comments on its current state.

The Green Flag Award is the national standard for parks and green spaces in England and Wales. Two Colchester Parks won awards again in 2006. Read all about the scheme and the award winners.

Helping community groups lead the way to a better future.
We all want to live happy, healthy and prosperous lives. And we also want the best for our children and grandchildren in the future too. But for this to happen, we need to make our world greener, cleaner, fairer and safer than it is today. We need to live within our environmental means and move to what WWF has called 'one planet living'.

The Colchester Environmental Information Centre.

Revitalising streets, reconnecting people.
The Living Streets initiative is a clear and urgent challenge to the authorities who, for decades, have allowed traffic priorities to overwhelm our local streets and public places, and failed to keep them clean and safe.
It is also a challenge to you - the person who wants to use your local streets freely and without fear, who wants to win back the public spaces from litter and vandalism and to reach local services with ease, not as someone whose family must always come second to cars and lorries.
The Living Streets initiative is a nationwide - ongoing - campaign to win back the streets for everybody.
A local branch has been formed in Colchester. Details from Pam Nelson: pamnelson@ntlworld.com

CABE stands for an improvement in people's quality of life through good design.

A voluntary association of National Trust Members founded in 1979 to promote and prosper the work of the National Trust.

The Civic Trust website specially for civic societies and their members.