Three Rivers District Council's Christmas opening times and service information

Three Rivers District Council's phone lines and visitor centre at Three Rivers House in Rickmansworth will be closed over Christmas and New Year.

Find out the council's updated opening times for the festive period along with information on the waste collection arrangements below:

Date

Visitor Centre opening hours

Phone lines

Friday 23 December (normal opening hours)

9am-4pm

8:30am-5pm

Saturday 24 December

Closed

Closed

Sunday 25 December (Christmas Day)

Closed

Closed

Monday 26 December (Boxing Day)

Closed

Closed

Tuesday 27 December (Christmas Bank Holiday)

Closed

Closed

Wednesday 28 December

Closed

8:30am-3pm

Thursday 29 December

Closed

8:30am-3pm

Friday 30 December

Closed

8:30am-3pm

Saturday 31 December

Closed

Closed

Sunday 1 January (New Year’s Day)

Closed

Closed

Monday 2 January (New Year’s Day Bank Holiday)

Closed

Closed

Tuesday 3 January (normal opening hours)

9am-4pm

8:30am-5:30pm

Online services  will be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week as usual.

Christmas waste collection arrangements

No collections will take place on Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 December but x2 extra bags of refuse will be collected on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 January for these residents.

Collections on Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 December will take place on the normal collection day and no excess will be taken on these dates

Why not subscribe to our bin reminder  service and stay up to date with latest collection information.

Garden waste collections

No garden waste (brown bins) will be collected between 19 December & 8 January. Garden waste collections will start again week commencing 9 January 2023.

Real Christmas trees can be left out and will be taken (WEEK B only) regardless of subscription to the Garden Waste Service.

Clinical collections

There will be no domestic sharps collections the week of 28-30 December.

Trade clinical collections & domestic orange sack collections due to be made one day later than usual e.g. Tuesday’s collection will be made on Wednesday 28, Wednesday’s on Thursday 29 and Thursday’s on Friday 30.

Recycling

Extra recycling can be left out in carrier bags over the Christmas / New Year Period.

Paper based wrapping paper (do the scrunch test – see link) is accepted in the recycling bin as are plain greetings cards.

https://www.recyclenow.com/what-to-do-with/wrapping-paper-1

Check out the A-Z online https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/egcl-page/to-recycle-or-not-to-recycle