Here are your council's office opening hours and Christmas recycling and waste collections.

Office opening hours:

The Civic Centre in Folkestone will close at 4pm on Friday 23 December and reopen at 8.30am on Tuesday 3 January

New Romney One Stop Services will be open from 9am to12.30pm on Tuesday 20 December and Friday 23 December. It re-opens Tuesday 3 January and Friday 6 January from 9am to 12.30pm

Hythe Pool

The pool will be closed from Saturday 24 December until Tuesday 27 December (inclusive)

Wednesday 28 December and Friday 30 December: 7am-4pm

Thursday 29 December and & Saturday 31 December: 7am-9am and 11am-4pm

Tuesday 3 January - school term programme starts

If you have an emergency and need to contact us during the holiday please call (01303) 221888

Recycling and waste collections

Collections between Christmas and New Year will be one day later than normal

Normal collection day Revised collection day

Monday 26 December Tuesday 27 December

Tuesday 27 December Wednesday 28 December

Wednesday 28 December Thursday 29 December

Thursday 29 December Friday 30 December

Friday 30 December Saturday 31 December

Normal recycling and waste collections start again on Monday 2 January.

Garden waste: The fortnightly collections will stop week ending Friday 23 December and restart from Monday 9 January.

Recycling and waste collections may be disrupted by bad weather. In the event of snow, please check this website [4] for updates.

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