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Council services over Christmas and New Year 2025/26

A guide to council services over the Christmas and New Year period when the council offices are closed to the public. 

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December 10, 2025

From 6pm tonight we are carrying out essential database maintenance which means our public registers, GIS and Eforms on our websites will be unavailable whilst this work takes place. The work is expected to take two hours. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

September 8, 2025

There is a new number for district council waste and recycling enquiries: 01235 422 123

see our news page for more information.

December 13, 2024

Building Control, Planning, Environmental Health, and online registers will be temporarily unavailable from 6pm today (Friday 13 December) until 6pm tomorrow for upgrade work. We apologise for any inconvenience.

September 27, 2024

If you are concerned about flooding

please visit the Oxfordshire Flood Toolkit for advice.

September 11, 2024

WARNING! We’ve been made aware some people in our district have received text messages about having to pay a parking fine. These are SCAMS – we would not send these messages. If you receive one please ignore this message.

March 26, 2024

We are carrying out phone maintenance on Tuesday morning (26 March) which may cause some temporary disruption. We apologise if your call is affected. Our online services will remain available. Otherwise, please try calling later.

February 18, 2022

Severe weather warnings in Oxfordshire

Today’s waste collections have been cancelled. Please bring your bins in as soon as you can. For more info on today’s weather warnings visit the Oxfordshire County Council website.

November 30, 2020

Free Christmas parking days confirmed for South Oxfordshire

find out when you can park for free this December

November 19, 2019

Flooding

there are some flood warnings in place in South Oxfordshire – click here to stay protected

September 11, 2019

Oh no

There’s a bad event – bring in your bins and hide in your basement – DO NOT GO OUTSIDE