Location
Land Use & Ownership
Form & Size
Construction & Design
Age & History
Planning & Conservation
Retrofit & Condition
Energy Performance & Systems
Green/Water Infrastructure Context
Urban Infrastructure Context
Disaster Management
Community
Welcome to Colouring Britain!
Colouring Britain is a research-led, free public resource, providing open spatial data on Britain's buildings and natural environment. It is also an open knowledge initiative, built collectively by, and for, academia, communities, government, industry and the third sector. Any information you can add to our open platform is greatly appreciated. New data and features are added all the time.
Colouring Britain is managed by Loughborough University, supported by the University of Cambridge. It forms part of the Colouring Cities Research Programme (CCRP), which brings together academic institutions worldwide, interested in co-working on a global network of interoperable open data platforms. These provide spatial data on buildings, and the built and natural infrastructure, and support cross-sector knowledge and resource sharing. The CCRP works to improve environmental quality, resilience and sustainability, and to accelerate progress towards net zero, and other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It is overseen by an informal international academic consortium, made up of representatives from CCRP expert groups and Global Hubs.
All data collected (e.g data-extracts) and code are free to download, use and share under open licence terms. Our open manual provides non-technical information for anyone interested in our research. We also have a Technical Manual, and an Impact Studies Section which shows how the data from the platform can be used.
Start Colouring Here!
