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.
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