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Christmas and New Year in Adur - Festive information
We would like to wish all our residents and visitors Season's Greetings
for a happy and safe Christmas and New Year.
Opening hours and services :
- Civic offices, cash offices and the telephone switchboard (including making payments and emergency contact numbers)
- Recycling and refuse including :
- Household recycling or refuse collections
- Garden Waste collections
- Christmas Tree collections
- Commercial Waste collections
- Clinical Waste collections
- Recycling Centres and Household Waste Recycling Sites
- Tips to help make your Christmas more environmentally friendly - Leisure centres
- Adur Watch
- Parks and cemeteries
- Public toilets (public conveniences)
- Street cleaning
- In the event of snow and ice see our Snow and ice situation webpage
Other useful information :
- Events in Adur and Worthing (late night shopping, markets, carols, etc)
- Royal Mail : Last posting dates and Christmas services (on the Royal Mail website) (www.royalmail.com)
- Christmas and festive information on the WSCC website (ww.westsussex.gov.uk)
- Less food waste tips (on the 'Love food, hate waste' website) (www.lovefoodhatewaste.com)
- Have a healthy Happy Christmas (on the NHS website) (www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/Healthychristmas/Pages/HealthyChristmashome.aspx)
- Food safety tips (on the Food Standards Agency website) (www.food.gov.uk)
- Don't leave Christmas presents out for burglars (on the Crimestoppers website) (www.crimestoppers-uk.org/media-centre/news-releases/2009/dont-leave-christmas-presents-out-for-burglars)
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. For various ways of making payments to Adur District Council during the Christmas and New Year period see the Adur DC payments webpage.
- 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. For various ways of making payments to Worthing Borough Council during the Christmas and New Year period see the payments webpage on the Worthing BC website.
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.
Recycling and refuse collections (and Christmas trees)
Collection day changes over the Christmas and New Year period :
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
- Alternatively please look up your collection day using the on-line 'What is my Bin Day' tool - www.aws.gov.uk/whatismybinday
- Note : Don't leave empty boxes advertising what you received for Christmas outdoors before your collection day. It could attract unwanted attention!
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) :
- Recycling centres located around the district are open all year round.
See the 'bring sites' page on the AWS website for locations and what they accept - Household Waste Recycling Sites (HWRS)
(previously Civic amenity sites)
Sites closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
See the Households webpage on the AWS website for locations and opening times
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 at Brighton Road Shoreham.
- 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.
Leisure centres
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 :
- Impulse
Leisure website : Lancing Manor Leisure Centre
(http://impulseleisure.wsiefusion.net/Lancing_Manor) - Impulse
Leisure website : Southwick Leisure Centre
(http://impulseleisure.wsiefusion.net/Southwick) - Impulse
Leisure website : Wadurs Swimming Pool
(http://impulseleisure.wsiefusion.net/Wadurs)
For details of leisure centres in Worthing see :
Adur Watch
Adur Watch provides a 365 day a year service (from 7:30am - 6:30pm) and this continues over the Christmas and New Year period. There is, however, a limited service on Christmas Day.
Parks and cemeteries
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.
- Click here for more information about parks in Adur
- For more information about parks in Worthing (on the Worthing BC website)
The cemeteries service closes for the Christmas period and all funeral directors are notified (the duty supervisor's number is available).
- Click here for more information about cemeteries in Adur
- Click here for more information about cemeteries and the crematorium in Worthing (on the Worthing BC website)
Public toilets (public conveniences)
These will operate as normal throughout the Christmas period with the exception of Christmas Day when there will be no service.
- Click here for more information about public conveniences in Adur
- Click here for more information about public conveniences in Worthing (on the Worthing BC website)
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
