Hendon Town Hall
Contacting us
If you need to contact us over the festive period, our customer contact centre will be open as usual between Christmas and New Year (apart from Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 December and Wednesday 1 January, which are bank holidays). The out-of-hours service will still be answered 24 hours a day for emergencies. See full contact details here
Bins
Recycling and refuse bin collection days will be revised over the festive period. This will affect bin collections between Monday 23 December and Saturday 4 January 2025. Blue recycling bin and black refuse bin collections will return to normal collection days from the week commencing Monday 6 January 2025. Check your revised recycling and refuse collection days here
The annual six-week pause to garden waste collections will last until Sunday 19 January 2025. The first collections in the New Year will either take place on Saturday 25 January or Saturday 1 February.
Real Christmas trees placed at the boundary of your property will be collected on Saturday 11 or Saturday 18 January. Please ensure your real Christmas tree has all decorations and tree lights removed, is cut in half and put at the boundary of your property by 6am.
Libraries
- All libraries will be closed from 1pm on Tuesday 24 December and all day on Wednesday 25 and Thursday 26 December
- On Friday 27, Saturday 28 and Monday 30 December all libraries are open as usual, except for New Barnet and South Friern Libraries which are closed
- On Sunday 29 December Golders Green library is open as usual and all other libraries are closed
- On Tuesday 31 December all libraries will close at 5pm except New Barnet and South Friern Libraries which will be closed all day
- All libraries will be closed on Wednesday 1 January
- From Tuesday 2 January all libraries will be open as usual.
Leisure centres
All council-owned leisure centres will be closed on Thursday 19, Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 December and Wednesday 1 January. From Monday 23 December until Tuesday 31 December, they will be operating with reduced hours in place. Full details here