.gov.uk

It's the ultimate official domain for a Council.

• Elevated level of security
• Improves compliance
• Improves GDPR – and FOI & SAR situations
• Added benefits and security services
• More professional
• Improved authenticity of message
• ■ Can only be used managed by authorised organisations for added security & governance

.org.uk

It's an acceptable UK-based domain for a Council.

• Elevated level of security above free emails
• Helps with compliance
• ■ Improves GDPR – and FOI & SAR situations
• ■ Requires less scrutiny so = less official than .gov.uk

You can also use .com, .co.uk or other council-owned domain suffix but they are not within the UK jurisdiction managed by Nominet.