Christmas and new year opening times 2018
Contact Camden
Our customer services team, Contact Camden, will be closed from 6pm on Monday 24 December until 8am on Thursday 27 December. It will be closed from 6pm on Monday 31 December and will reopen on Wednesday 2 January. Essential services will continue as usual over Christmas and New Year. In an emergency, please call 020 7974 4444 (24 hours a day).
You can use your Camden Account at any time to manage key services in one place with one log in. With your Camden Account you can:
- pay and view your council tax bill
- purchase resident parking permits and eVisitor parking permits
- report a housing repair
- view rent statements
- view housing benefit claims and payments
- pay and view leaseholder service charges
- check bin collection days, report missed collections and order recycling equipment.
Parking
For information about parking enforcement over Christmas and the new year, please visit our parking and enforcement pages.
Recycling and rubbish collection day changes
Your recycling and rubbish will be collected as usual on Christmas Eve and all other collections during Christmas week take place two days later than usual. Rubbish and recycling will be collected on New Year’s Eve but all other collections during the first week of 2019 will be a day later than usual.
Normal collection day |
Christmas collection day |
Normal collection day |
New year collection day |
Monday 24 December |
No change |
Monday 31 December |
No change |
Tuesday 25 December |
Thursday 27 December |
Tuesday 1 January |
Wednesday 2 January |
Wednesday 26 December |
Friday 28 December |
Wednesday 2 January |
Thursday 3 January |
Thursday 27 December |
Saturday 29 December |
Thursday 3 January |
Friday 4 January |
Friday 28 December |
Sunday 30 December |
Friday 4 January |
Saturday 5 January |
Collections will go back to their usual day from Monday 7 January.
Find out more about rubbish and recycling collection here.
Sports and leisure centres
Below are the opening times for our sports and leisure centres over Christmas and the new year. Find out more about our sports and leisure centres here.
2018/19 |
Kentish Town Sports Centre |
Oasis Sports Centre |
Swiss Cottage Leisure Centre |
Pancras Square Leisure |
Talacre |
Cantelowes |
Mon 17 Dec |
6.30am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
6am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
9am–10pm |
Closed |
Tue 18 Dec |
6.30am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
6am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
9am–10pm |
Closed |
Wed 19 Dec |
6.30am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
6am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
9am–10pm |
Closed |
Thu 20 Dec |
6.30am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
6am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
9am–10pm |
Closed |
Fri 21 Dec |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Sat 22 Dec |
8am–5pm |
9.30am–6pm |
8am–6pm |
8am–5pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Sun 23 Dec |
6.30am–5pm |
9.30am–6pm |
8am–6pm |
8am–5pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Mon 24 Dec |
6.30am–8pm |
9am–4pm |
7.30am–8pm |
9am–4pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Tue 25 Dec |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Wed 26 Dec |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Thu 27 Dec |
6.30am–6pm |
8am–6pm |
7.30am–8pm |
8am–6pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Fri 28 Dec |
6.30am–6pm |
8am–6pm |
7.30am–8pm |
8am–6pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Sat 29 Dec |
8am–5pm |
9.30am–6pm |
8am–5pm |
8am–5pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Sun 30 Dec |
8am–5pm |
9.30am–6pm |
8am–5pm |
8am–5pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Mon 31 Dec |
6.30am–6pm |
9am–4pm |
7.30am–8pm |
9am–4pm |
10am–4pm |
Closed |
Tue 1 Jan |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Closed |
Wed 2 Jan |
6.30am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
6am–10pm |
6.30am–10pm |
9am–10pm |
11am–10pm |
Camden libraries
Camden libraries will close on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day, but you can use our digital library to renew items and borrow e-books.
Libraries will close at 1pm on Christmas Eve, Monday 24 December, except the library at 5 Pancras Square, which will close at 4pm.
They will close at 4pm on New Year’s Eve.
Libraries will open as usual between Thursday 27 and Sunday 30 December, except Highgate Library will close from Tuesday 25 December to Wednesday 2 January, inclusive.
Find out more about our libraries here.
Parks
All our parks will be open as usual throughout the festive period.
Cantelowes skate park will close at dusk (park closing time).