Information for the festive season
(Date of issue: Monday, 14 December 2009)
Information about Carlisle City Council and other services, over
the Christmas and New Year period, is as follows:
Civic Centre
The Civic Centre will be closed on Christmas Day, Monday 28
December and New Year’s Day. Our Customer Contact Centre will close
at 3pm on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
Information on City Council website
Access to, and information about many of the City Council
services, can also be found throughout the festive period, on the
City Council's website – www.carlisle.gov.uk
Crematorium
Open: 8.30am - 4.30pm: Thursday 24 December, Tuesday 29 December
to Thursday 31 December.
Open 1pm - 4.30pm: Friday 25 December to Monday 28 December and
Friday 1 January to Sunday 3 January.
Bereavement Services
Open: 8am - 4.30pm: Thursday 24 December, Tuesday 29 December to
Thursday 31 December and Monday 4 January.
Closed: Friday 25 December to Monday 28 December and Friday 1
January to Sunday 3 January.
The gates to the Cemeteries and Crematorium will open at 8.30am
and close at 5pm. No funeral services will take place on Friday 25
and Monday 28 December or on Friday 1 January 2010.
A Christmas Remembrance Service will be held at the Crematorium
Chapel on Saturday 19 December 2009 at 3pm. Donations to The
Hospice At Home.
How to have a green Christmas:
- Visit Carlisle City Council’s recycling roadshow on Monday, 21
December. It will be held in the city centre between 11am and 2pm
and there will a special appearance by Santa in his ‘green grotto’.
Local children will be able to meet Santa when they bring along one
item of recycling e.g. a plastic bottle or newspaper, in exchange
for a free eco-gift.
- If you have a Greenbox, you can recycle the following items at
the kerbside or at a local recycling point: wrapping paper;
Christmas cards; clean and empty glass bottles & jars and clean
and empty drinks & food cans. Please do not put anything in
plastic carrier bags.
- You can recycle your real Christmas trees using your Garden
Waste bin (place it beside the bin, on the day of your collection,
if it is too big to go inside). In the New Year, to help speed up
your garden waste collections, please do not place your garden
waste bin out for collection unless it is at least half full.
- If you have Greenbags you can recycle the following items from
the kerbside or from recycling points: cardboard food and packaging
boxes (please place beside your cardboard bag if it will not fit
in); hard plastic packaging; plastic bottles, plastic biscuit trays
& other plastic trays/food tubs. Please put plastics in one bag
and cardboard in the other as we cannot recycle mixed bags.
Festive Refuse and Recycling Collections
There will be some changes to the days you need to put out your
refuse (wheeled bins and purple sacks) and kerbside recycling over
Christmas and New Year:
Usual refuse and recycling date Festive collection
date:
| Usual refuse and recycling date |
Festive collection date |
| Thursday 24 December |
As normal |
| Friday 25 December |
Sunday 27 December |
| Monday 28 December |
As normal |
| Tuesday 29 December |
As normal |
| Wednesday 30 December |
As normal |
| Thursday 31 December 2009 |
As normal |
| Friday 1 January 2010 |
Saturday 2 January |
| Monday 4 January |
As normal |
Collections return to normal from Monday 4 January 2010 onwards.
Please refer to your recycling calendar and refuse calendar (for
those who have wheeled bins) for collection dates.
Remember to recycle your real Christmas trees using your garden
waste bin. You can place it beside the bin on the day of the
collection, if it is too big to go inside.
For further information on recycling in Carlisle visit www.carlisle.gov.uk/refuseandrecycling or
telephone 01228 817200.