| Honorific Prefix: | Cllr |
| Colin Noble | |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Office: | Leader of Suffolk County Council |
| Termstart: | 21 May 2015 |
| Termend: | 24 May 2018 |
| Deputy: | Christopher Hudson Jane Storey |
| Predecessor: | Mark Bee |
| Successor: | Matthew Hicks |
| Office1: | Cabinet Member for Finances and Resources at Suffolk County Council |
| Termstart1: | Jun 2013 |
| Termend1: | May 2014 |
| Office2: | Cabinet Member for Adult & Community Services at Suffolk County Council |
| Termstart2: | Jul 2009 |
| Termend2: | May 2013 |
| Office3: | West Suffolk District Councillor for Lakenheath |
| Termstart3: | 6 May 2021 |
| Termend3: | 4 May 2023 |
| Predecessor3: | David Gathercole |
| Successor3: | Tracy Whitehand |
| Office4: | Forest Heath District Councillor for Lakenheath |
| Termstart4: | 5 May 2011 |
| Termend4: | 2 May 2019 |
| Predecessor4: | Simon Flack |
| Successor4: | Seat Abolished |
| Office5: | Suffolk County Councillor for Row Heath |
| Termstart5: | 8 June 2006 |
| Predecessor5: | Matthew Edwards |
| Birth Date: | 10 June 1965 |
| Birth Place: | Newmarket, Suffolk, England |
| Party: | Conservative |
Colin Lawrence Noble (born 10 June 1965) is a British politician of the Conservative Party. He was leader of the Suffolk Conservatives group[1] and Leader of Suffolk County Council from May 2015 to May 2018.[2] [3]
Noble joined the Conservative Party in 1984 and was a local branch activist from 1999. In 2002 Noble was elected Deputy Chairman Political of the West Suffolk Conservative Association; after three years he was elected Chairman for a 4 year term then vice-President and President. In 2011 Noble was appointed Chairman of Norwich North Conservative Association and stepped down in 2013 when Norwich North and Norwich South Conservative Associations formed a Federation.
In 2005 Noble was elected an officer of the Norfolk and Suffolk Conservative Area Executive then in 2008 Noble was elected Deputy Chairman Political. From 2011 to 2014, he was elected as the Norfolk and Suffolk Area Chairman. In 2014 Noble was elected Addtional Officer of the Eastern Region Executive, in September 2017 Noble was elected Deputy Chairman (Political) and elected Regional Chairman for the Conservative Party from 2021 to 2024.
Noble was elected to the Conservative Councillors Association board in January 2019 and served on it as the county representative till January 2020.[4]
In March 2019 he became a board member and Commissioner of the Independent Commission on Civil Aviation Noise, an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Department of Transport and served a three year term until 2023.[5] [6]
He was first elected as a County Councillor at a by-election for the county electoral division of Row Heath in the constituency of West Suffolk on 8 June 2006.[7] On 21 May 2009 Colin was appointed as Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care and on 23 May 2013 he became Cabinet Member for Finance.
He became Leader of the Conservative group on Suffolk County Council on 7 April 2015. At the annual general meeting of Suffolk County Council on 21 May 2015 he was duly elected Leader of Suffolk County Council.[8] At the Suffolk County Council Conservative leadership election held on 11 May 2018 Colin was defeated by County Councillor Matthew Hicks and left office as Leader of Suffolk County Council on 24 May 2018 at its Annual General Meeting.[9] [10]
Noble was elected to Forest Heath District Council at the 2011 United Kingdom local elections as one of the two District Councillors for Lakenheath ward.[11] He served until Forest Heath merged with St Edmundsbury in 2019, when he was unsuccessful in winning a seat in the new West Suffolk District Council. A by election victory in 2021 gave him an opportunity to return but he was again defeated in 2023.
Colin Noble was born in Newmarket, West Suffolk . His father, Lawrence Noble, died in a road accident in Suffolk in May 2016.[12]
He attended school at King's Ely in Ely, Cambridgeshire. He lives with his partner Lisa in the village of Lakenheath in north-west Suffolk.[13]