Christmas and New Year

Refuse Collections

The below table shows the changes to your usual refuse collection date over the Christmas and New Year period. These are also available as screen-friendly images here.

Paper sacks usually collected with your green bin will be collected week commencing 22 December.

Paper sacks usually collected with your blue bin will be collected week commencing 29 December.

There will be no green bin collections over Christmas, we will collect your blue bin instead. All collections return to normal week beginning 5 January 2026. 

We will be unable to return for missed collections, but will take excess with your next refuse collection.

Don’t forget Christmas wrapping paper, cards and packaging can be recycled and put in your white sack.

Christmas trees should be chopped up and placed inside green bins, or if you are not on the green bin service tied up and left with burgundy bins or lilac sacks. They can also be taken to the household waste recycling centres in Clitheroe and Longridge.

Please think before you bin batteries. Lithium-ion batteries, typically found in anything rechargeable, such as laptops and mobile phones; nickel-cadmium batteries found in remote controls and all other rechargeable batteries contain chemicals that can ignite. They can be taken back to the shop or supermarket you bought them from, or household waste disposal centres in Clitheroe and Longridge, where they will be stripped and recycled or disposed of as hazardous waste.

To find out your collection day please enter your postcode in the bin collection search facility but remember it will be changed according to the table above.

Council Offices

Council Offices and our Contact Centre will close at 5pm Wednesday 24 December and reopens at 9am on Monday 5 January 2026 (8.45am for telephone calls to 01200 425111).

Many services such as bill payments and reporting services can be done via our website.

During this time if you find yourself in an extreme circumstance, where there's an immediate threat to health and safety please use our emergency phone number 01200 444448.

Benefit Payments

Benefit payments will be paid as normal over the Christmas and New Year period.

Recycling Centres

The Household Waste Recycling Centres are run and managed by Lancashire County Council. Please refer to their website for opening times for Clitheroe and Longridge.

Clitheroe Market

During Christmas week Clitheroe Market will be open on the following days:

• Tuesday 23 December 9am - 4pm
• Wednesday 24 December 9am - 4pm
• Saturday 27 December 9am - 4pm

Ribblesdale Pool

Ribblesdale Pool closes at 12.45pm Wednesday 24 December, reopens betweens 8am and 1pm Saturday 27 December and is then closed again until Saturday 3 January 2026.

For more information see Pool Opening Times.

3G Pitches

Ribble Valley 3G closes at 5pm on Sunday 21 December and reopens at 9am Monday 5 January 2026.

Platform Gallery

Platform Gallery and Visitor Information Centre closes on Wednesday 24 December at 4.30pm and reopens at 10am on Saturday 3 January 2025.

Clitheroe Castle

Christmas and New Year Opening Hours

Closed: 24 – 26 December 
Open: 27 – 30 December
Closed: 31 December to 2 January

Normal winter opening hours resume 3 January 2026.

Clitheroe Castle Museum is managed by Lancashire County Council's museum service, on behalf of Ribble Valley Borough Council.

See Clitheroe Castle Museum - Lancashire County Council for more information.