Christmas and New Year – useful information

Information and links to webpages that you might find useful this Christmas and New Year:

Opening hours of our customer service centre, customer service points and registration service

The majority of Shropshire Council’s main buildings and services will be closed over the Christmas period.  All essential services will continue.  Other services and buildings, including the council headquarters at Shirehall and The Guildhall in Shrewsbury, Corve Street in Ludlow, Westgate in Bridgnorth, and Castle View in Oswestry, will be closed from Monday 23 December 2013 to Wednesday 1 January 2014 inclusive.  The buildings will reopen on Thursday 2 January 2014.

Between this period, our customer service centre will be available on 23 December, 24 December, 30 December and 31 December.  For further details, and more specific information on the opening times of individual customer service points, as well as the registration service, please click here.

Waste collections

For information on changes to the refuse, garden waste and recycling collection dates over the Christmas and New Year period , please click here.

Get ready for winter

A range of information is available on this page, including travel, school closure and health advice: http://shropshire.gov.uk/get-ready-for-winter/

Taxi safety

Find out here about the taxi marshal scheme in Oswestry and Shrewsbury, available  this weekend, as well as New Year’s Eve and the first weekend in January: http://shropshire.gov.uk/news/?s=taxi