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Christmas
and New Year in Adur - Festive information
Adur Council opening hours and services :
- Civic Centre, local offices, cash offices and the telephone switchboard (including making payments and emergency contact numbers)
- Recycling and refuse collections
including Christmas tree recycling - Leisure centres
- Adur Watch
- Parks and cemeteries
- Public toilets (public conveniences)
- Street cleaning
- Building services
Other useful information :
- Events in Adur in December (late night shopping, markets, carols, etc)
- Royal Mail :
- Last posting dates (on the Royal Mail website) (www.royalmail.com/christmasposting)
- Christmas services (on the Royal Mail website) (www.royalmail.com/portal/campaign/content1?catId=1000002&mediaId=111000771&campaignid=RM_promo_welcome1)
- Christmas and festive information (on the WSCC website) (www.westsussex.gov.uk/redirect/?oid=[com.arsdigita.cms.contenttypes.ArticleSection:{id=2495620}])
- Less food waste tips (on the 'Love food, hate waste' website) (www.lovefoodhatewaste.com)
- 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 Centre, other local offices and the telephone switchboard
The Civic Centre council offices in Shoreham-by-Sea will close at 4.00pm on Christmas Eve, Thursday 24th December 2009 and re-open again at 9:00am on Monday 4th January 2010.
The cash office at the Civic Centre will close at 2.00pm on Christmas Eve, Thursday 24th December 2009 and re-open again on Monday 4th January 2010 (see note below about making payments).
The housing local area offices at Lancing and Southwick do not open on Wednesdays or Thursdays - as a result they will close as normal on Tuesday 22nd December 2009 and re-open again on Monday 4th January 2010.
The cash offices at the Lancing and Southwick local area offices do not open on Wednesdays or Thursdays - as a result they will close as normal on Tuesday 22nd December 2009 and re-open again on Monday 4th January 2010 (see note below about making payments).
Council tenants are advised to call 07713 889128 if they have an emergency during the holiday period.
The
council's telephone switchboard will close at 4.00pm on Christmas
Eve, Thursday 24th December 2009 and re-open again on Monday 4th January
2010.
Emergency
contact details : If you have an emergency which you feel cannot wait
until after Christmas please see our emergency
contact numbers page.
Making payments :
For ways of making payments to the council during the Christmas and New Year period see our payments webpage.
Recycling
and refuse collections (and Christmas trees)
Collection day changes at Christmas and New Year 2008/09 :
Note : There will not be any collections on:
- Christmas Day - Friday 25th December 2009
- Monday 28th December 2009
- New Year's Day - Friday 1st January 2010
Collection day changes will be :
- Bin last collected on : Friday 18th December 2009
- after Christmas will be emptied on : Tuesday 29th December 2009
- and after new year will be collected on : Wednesday 6th January 2010
- Bin last collected on : Monday 21st December 2009
- after Christmas will be emptied on : Wednesday 30th December 2009
- and after new year will be collected on : Thursday 7th January 2010
- Bin last collected on : Tuesday 22nd December 2009
- after Christmas will be emptied on : Thursday 31st December 2009
- and after new year will be collected on : Friday 8th January 2010
- Bin last collected on : Wednesday 23rd December 2009
- no collection between Christmas and New Year
- and after new year will be collected on : Monday 4th January 2010
- Bin last collected on : Thursday 24th December 2009
- no collection between Christmas and New Year
- and after new year will be collected on : Tuesday 5th January 2010
- Please your Recycling & Refuse Collection Service Leaflet for further details of changes to your collections over the Christmas and New Year period.
Alternatively, visit www.aws.gov.uk for collection dates. Once changed your new collection day will then remain on the same day of the week until Easter 2010.
Garden waste collections :
- There will be no garden waste collections from
Christmas Day, 25th Friday 2009, until Monday 11th January 2010.
Christmas tree recycling :
In
January of each year Adur & Worthing Council Services provides collections
for real Christmas trees. - Your unwanted real Christmas trees should be put out for recycling from the 11th January 2010 on your normal refuse collection days - the garden waste is collected weekly and resumes on this date so your real Christmas trees will be collected if put out. If you are not sure when your collection day is then see collection days for domestic recycling and refuse.
- Alternatively, they can be taken to the Household Waste Recycling Site at Brighton Road Shoreham-by-Sea. Both options the trees go for composting!
- (Please note : with these new collection arrangements there will not be any Christmas tree recycling compounds at either Buckingham Park or Lancing Manor Leisure Centre).
- If your real Christmas tree still has its roots then plant it out in your garden.
- Please remember to remove all the decorations, baubles, tinsel and twinkly lights from your Christmas tree before putting it out for collection!
- If you have an artificial tree then please package it away carefully
and save it for re-use next Christmas along with all your decorations, tinsel
and lights.
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 can be recycled from 11th January 2010. Please place your tree on the kerbside on the same day as your refuse collection. This will then be collected and sent for composting. Alternatively, take to the HWRS (Household Waste recycling Sites at Brighton Road Shoreham. Please remove all decorations.
- 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 see the waste and recycling webpages).
Leisure centres
Impulse
Leisure run the leisure centres in the Adur District.
For details of the opening times for the three leisure centres 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)
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.
(For more information see the Adur Watch webpage).
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.
(For more information see the parks webpage).
The cemeteries service closes for the Christmas period and all funeral directors are notified (the duty supervisor's number is available).
(For more information see cemeteries webpage).
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.
(For more information see public conveniences webpage).
Street cleaning
This will operate as normal throughout the Christmas period with the exception of Christmas Day and Boxing Day when there will be no service.
(For more information see the street cleaning webpage).
Building services
Note : Dates and times for 2009 are still to be announced - in 2008 they were as follows and should be similar for 2009/10 :
Building services will operate as normal until 4:00pm on Christmas Eve. There will then be normal emergency cover via Duty Supervisor from 4:00pm on Christmas Eve until 9:00am 2nd January 2009.
