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Wokingham Borough Council has announced its office opening hours for the Christmas and New Year period.
There are reduced hours in some services, and closures on bank holidays.
Waste collections will also be affected.
Its Shute End offices will close at 3pm on Friday, December 23, then reopen on Wednesday, December 28, with regular hours of 9am to 5pm.
It will again close early on Friday, December 30, reopening on Tuesday, January 3, on normal hours.
Emergency phone contacts
The emergency out-of-hours telephone number during the holiday period is a freephone number: 0800 212111.
Social services emergencies out-of-hours telephone number is: 01344 351999.
The telephone number for reporting out-of-hours repairs to council properties is: 0800 515287 for general repairs.
Calls will be managed by the council’s out-of-hours call centre and passed to the appropriate contractor.
The number for heating repairs is: 0800 389 8789. This is only available during office hours.
The community mental health crisis team will be providing out-of-hours urgent care service and are available on: 0300 365 9999.
Waste and recycling
Waste collection crews will enjoy the Boxing Day holiday on Monday, December 26, resuming collections a day later.
If your collection is normally on Monday, it will be on Tuesday during Christmas week, if Tuesday it will be Wednesday, and so on.
Those with Friday collections will have their festive recycling, food waste and blue bags collected on New Year’s Eve, Saturday, December 31. This will see crews on the road from 5.30am.
Everything returns to normal the following week.
Libraries
On Fridays December 23 and 30, all libraries will close at 3pm, or their normal closing time, whichever is earlier.
All libraries will be closed from Christmas Eve through to Christmas Tuesday, as well as New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day and New Year Holiday Monday, January 2.
Normal opening hours will operate at all other times.
Ebooks, newspapers, magazines and music streaming will be available as normal.
Further details on opening times and other library services can be found on the council’s website.
