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Christmas and New Year in Adur and Worthing

We would like to wish all our residents and visitors Season's Greetings for a happy and safe Christmas and New Year.

Civic offices, cash offices and the telephone switchboard

The Adur & Worthing Council's Civic offices will close at 4.00pm on Friday 23rd December 2011, and will then re-open again on Tuesday 3rd January 2012 at the following times:

  • Adur Civic Centre (Shoreham-by-Sea) Help-Point - 8.30am
  • Worthing Town Hall Help point - 8.30am
  • Worthing Town Hall Personal Enquiry Counter - 8.45am
  • Portland House (Worthing) Help-Point - 9.00am

Cash offices and making payments :

  • The cash office at the Adur Civic Centre will close at 2:30pm on Friday 23 December 2011 and re-open again at 8:30am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. Why not try our 24 hours a day, 7 days a week secure Online and Telephone Payments?
  • The cash office at Worthing Town Hall will close at 2:30pm on Friday 23 December 2011 and re-open again at 8:30am on Tuesday 3rd January 2012. Why not try our 24 hours a day, 7 days a week secure Online and Telephone Payments?

Adur Council tenants :

  • If you have an emergency during the holiday period you are advised to call 07713 889 128 (but only use this number in an emergency situation).
  • Telephone switchboard and emergency contact details :
  • The council's telephone switchboard will close at 4.00pm on Friday 23rd December 2011, and will then re-open again on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.
  • Emergency contact details : If you have an emergency which you feel cannot wait until after Christmas please see our emergency contact numbers page.

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Recycling and refuse collections (and Christmas trees)

Collection day changes over the Christmas and New Year period :

You can set the homepage "When is my bin day?" gadget to your home address and this will automatically update you with the new collection days for your property at 6pm on Friday 23rd December and Friday 30th December, and a calendar download link is provided for most properties.

Or you can use the When is my bin day tool on the Adur & Worthing Council Services website, and a calendar download link is provided for most properties.

There will not be any household recycling or refuse collections on:

  • 26th December 2011 (Monday)
  • 27th December 2011 (Tuesday)
  • 2nd January 2012 (Monday)
     
  • For full details of changes to your recycling and refuse collection service over the Christmas and New Year period will be posted on the www.aws.gov.uk website

For full details about changes to the following collection services :

  • Garden Waste
  • Christmas Trees
  • Commercial Waste
  • Clinical Waste
  • Please see the www.aws.gov.uk website

Recycling Centres and Household Waste Recycling Sites (HWRS) :

Don't leave empty boxes advertising what you received for Christmas outdoors before your collection day. It could attract unwanted attention!

Some tips to help make your Christmas more environmentally friendly :

  • Please refer to your Recycling & Refuse Collection Service Leaflet for changes in collection days over the Christmas and New Year period.
  • Real Christmas trees - a free kerbside Christmas Tree collection will operate from 9th January 2012. Please leave your tree in a safe and visible place for collection on your normal collection day for the crews to pick up. Please ensure that the tree is completely stripped of decorations as these are sent to a composting facility for reprocessing and it cannot cope with angels or tinsel! For large trees it would be helpful if you could cut them into smaller pieces. Alternatively, take them along to your local HRWS (Household Waste Recycling Site).
  • Wrapping paper (not metallic) can be recycled in your blue lidded bin, or reused.
  • Greetings cards can be recycled in your blue lidded bin. Alternatively, cut into gift tags for Christmas next year.
  • As well as recycling paper and cards a lot more glass, cans and plastic bottles will be used over the festive period please recycle in your blue wheeled bin.
  • Alternatively, take to the HWRS (Household Waste recycling Sites)
  • Buy Christmas trees with roots so they can be planted in the garden in spring or alternatively buy an artificial Christmas tree that can be used year after year.
  • Buy rechargeable instead of disposable batteries.
  • Compost fruit and vegetable peelings from the preparation of Christmas dinner.
  • Reuse your old Christmas greetings cards and make new ones (or present tags) for next year, alternatively recycle them in your blue box or recycling wheelie bins.
  • Christmas wrappings can also be put in with your recycling waste.
  • Don’t forget to recycle all your glass bottles and jars, cans and plastic shaped bottles over the Christmas and New Year period.
  • Compost all those vegetable peelings when preparing your Christmas dinner.
  • Use rechargeable batteries for all those new electric toys.
  • Take any unwanted gifts or clothing items to the charity shop.
  • Make a new year's resolution to recycle and compost more (or to start recycling/composting if you do not already do so).

For more information about waste and recycling please see the www.aws.gov.uk website.

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Leisure centres

For Christmas and New Years details for the Leisure Centres in Worthing please see:

Impulse Leisure run the leisure centres in the Adur District.

For details of the opening times for the three leisure centres in Adur please use the link(s) below which will take you to the relevant page(s) on their external website :

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Parks, cemeteries and crematiorium

The parks office closes for the Christmas period in line with the Civic Centre opening hours. A limited grounds maintenance service is still provided to cater for the football fixtures that continue over this period.

The cemeteries service closes for the Christmas period and all funeral directors are notified (the duty supervisor's number is available).

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Public toilets

These will operate as normal throughout the Christmas period with the exception of Christmas Day when there will be no service.

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Street cleaning

For full details of the street cleaning service over the Christmas and New Year period will be posted on the www.aws.gov.uk website

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Emergency contact details

If you have an emergency situation over the Christmas and New Year period please see our Emergency Contact Numbers page.

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