August bank holiday 2025 opening hours
Our waste and recycling collections and parking restrictions for the summer bank holiday period and opening hours for our customer services, leisure services, street markets and libraries service.
- Contact Centre and Customer Service Centre opening hours
- Housing
- Leisure Centres
- Libraries
- Museums
- Parking restrictions
- Parks
- Registrars
- Street markets
- Waste and recycling collections
Customer Services
Contact Centre
Our Contact Centre will be closed on Monday 25 August 2025 (summer bank holiday Monday). Normal service will resume on Tuesday 26 August 2025.
- Friday 22 August: 8.30am to 5.30pm
- Saturday 23 August to Monday 25 August: Closed. Emergency Out of Hours ONLY
- Tuesday 26 August: 8.30am to 5.30pm
Customer Service Centre (in-person)
Customer Service Centre
Town Hall
Hornton Street
W8 7NX
- Friday 22 August: 9am to 5pm
- Saturday 23 August to Monday 25 August: Closed.
- Tuesday 26 August: 9am to 5pm
Housing
Housing management
Our neighbourhood offices will close on Friday 22 August 2025 at 5pm, and reopen on Tuesday 26 August 2025 at 9am.
Housing repairs
To report an emergency repair, or if you need assistance please call the Housing Response Team’s Out Of Hours Service Centre:
- telephone 0800 137 111 or 020 3617 7080
An emergency repair is:
- total loss of power to your property
- total loss of water supply to your property
- no heating and no hot water
- security problems - residents are locked in or out of the property
- making safe of windows and doors due to forced entries or antisocial behaviour
- electrics - making safe due to water damage
- uncontainable leaks
- bath and sinks backing up waste
Opening hours
- Saturday 23 August: 24 hours
- Sunday 24 August: 24 hours
- Monday 25 August: 24 hours
Leisure Centres
To be confirmed.
Libraries
Brompton, Chelsea, Kensington Central:
- Saturday 23 August: 9.30am to 5pm
- Sunday 24 August: Closed
- Monday 25 August: Closed
Kensal and North Kensington Libraries:
- Saturday 23 August: Closed
- Sunday 24 August: Closed
- Monday 25 August: Closed
Museums
Leighton House Museum
- Saturday 23 August: 10am to 5.30pm
- Sunday 24 August: 10am to 5.30pm
- Monday 25 August: 10am to 5.30pm
Sambourne House
- Saturday 23 August: 10am to 5.30pm
- Sunday 24 August: 10am to 5.30pm
- Monday 25 August: Closed
Parking restrictions
For full details visit Bank holiday parking.
Parks
- Saturday 23 August: 7.30am to 8.30pm
- Sunday 24 August: 7.30am to 8.30pm
- Monday 25 August: 7.30am to 8pm
Parks within the Notting Hill Carnival footprint are subject to different opening and closing times over the bank holiday weekend. Some parks are hosting events and others may be closed for the entire bank holiday weekend.
See our map of the Carnival footprint.
Registrars
- Friday 22 August: 8am to 5pm by prior appointment only
- Saturday 23 August: 10am to 6pm by prior appointment only
- Sunday 24 August: Closed
- Monday 25 August: Closed
Sunday and Monday: Emergency provision for same say burials/cremations telephone 020 7361 3000 between 9am and 10am.
This telephone number is for the borough duty officer who will contact the registrar on call. You must telephone between the hours of 9am and 10am if you require to be seen that day.
The green form for burial or cremation may be issued only if the:
- medical certificate of cause of death is completed correctly by the doctor certifying death
- death has not been or does not need to be reported to the coroner
- death has been scrutinised by a medical examiner
- body is not being removed from England or Wales
Street markets
Markets
- Saturday 23 August: 8am to 7pm
- Sunday 24 August: Closed
- Monday 25 August: Closed
- Tuesday 26 August: 8am to 7pm
Street Trading Office
- Saturday 23 August: 7am to 1pm
- Sunday 24 August: Closed
- Monday 25 August: Closed
- Tuesday 26 August: 8am to 1pm
Waste and recycling collections
Carnival waste collections
There are no waste and recycling collections on Monday 25 August 2025. The revised collection dates, for this week only, are:
- if your regular collection is on Monday 25 August 2025, your next collection date will be Thursday 28 August 2025
- if your regular collection is on Tuesday 26 August 2025, your next collection date will be Wednesday 27 August 2025
Last updated: 15 August 2025