Honorary titles bestowed to the local authorities

Which local authorities may be awarded royal charter status and does it affect how the local authority is run?

(a).

The district councils, borough councils, civil parishes, and metropolitan borough councils may be awarded royal charter status to become city.

For example, Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, and Gloucester are districts or borough councils in a two-tier structure that were granted royal charter, and applied with city status.

Seven English cities, such as Chichester, Ely, Hereford, Lichfield. Ripon, Truro, and Wells are actually no more than civil parishes, but which were all granted royal charter and applied with city status.

Metropolitan borough such as Mancherster, Liverpool, Leeds, Coventry, Bradford, Birmingham, Newcastle upon Tyne, Salford, Sunderland, Wakefield, Wolverhampton were granted royal charter and applied with city status.

(b)

District may awarded royal charters and become boroughs, such as all the London boroughs are districts applied with borough status, and in effect, all the London boroughs are unitary authorities.

(c)

These Royal charter status does not affect how the local authority runs.