Christmas opening hours
Opening and closing times for our core services in Liverpool over the festive period, December 2024 to January 2025.
One Stop Shops
All One Stop Shops will be closed from Wednesday 25th December 2024 until Thursday 2nd January 2025, except for Norris Green OSS, which will be open as follows:
- Friday 27th December 2024: 10.00am-3.00pm
- Monday 30th December 2024: 10.00am-3.00pm
- Tuesday 31st December 2024: 10.00am-3.00pm
Contact Centre
- Tuesday 24th December: 9am-4.30pm
- Wednesday 25th December 2024: Closed
- Thursday 26th December 2024: Closed
- Friday 27th December 2024: 9am-4.30pm
- Monday 30th December 2024: 9am-4.30pm
- Tuesday 31st December 2024: 9am-4.30pm
- Monday 1st January 2025: Closed
Social care
Adult and children's social care will remain open 24/7 for enquiries and referrals over the festive period, including Christmas Day.
Libraries
- Tuesday 24th December 2024: Central Library open 9am-3pm. Community Libraries, if due to be open, will operate 10am-3pm.
- Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th December 2024: All libraries closed.
- Friday 27th December 2024: Central Library open 10am-4pm. Allerton and Norris Green open 10am-4pm. All other libraries closed.
- Saturday 28th December 2024: Central Library open 10am-4pm. Allerton and Norris Green open 10am-4pm. All other libraries closed.
- Sunday 29th December 2024: All libraries closed.
- Monday 30th December 2024: Central Library open 10am-4pm. Allerton and Norris Green open 10am-4pm. All other libraries closed.
- Tuesday 31st December 2024: Central Library open 10am-3pm. Allerton and Norris Green open 10am-3pm. All other libraries closed.
- Wednesday 1st January 2025: New Year’s Day all libraries closed.
- Thursday 2nd January 2025: Central Library open usual opening hours 9am- 8pm. All community libraries timetabled to open on a Thursday, open 10am - 5pm.
Markets
- Greatie Market: Open Saturday 28th December 2024 and Saturday 4th January 2025 as normal from 8am to 3pm.
- Tuebrook Market: Closed over Christmas and New Year, reopens Thursday 2nd January 2025 from 8am to 2pm.
- Garston Market: Closed over Christmas and New Year, reopens Friday 3rd January 2025 from 9am to 3pm
- Liverpool Food HUB Wholesale Market: Closed on 25th, 26th, 27th December 2024 and 1st January 2025.
Lifestyles Centres
View Lifestyles Centres opening hours over Christmas on lifestyles.liverpool.gov.uk.
Adult Learning Centres
- Park Road, Newsham and Norris Green will be closed from Friday 20th December until 6th January.
- Granby Street will be closed from 24th December until 2nd January.
Coroners Court
The court will close at 1pm on Tuesday 24th December 2024 and reopen on at 9.15am on Friday 27th December 2024. See contact details for out of hours and urgent matters.
Bins and recycling collections
Check your bin collection dates for the Christmas holiday period using our postcode look-up. Stickers have also been placed on your bins showing your revised collection dates over Christmas.
You can recycle your real Christmas tree at one of our drop off points in January 2025.
Online services
While many of our services are closed over the holidays, don't forget you can still report many issues online.
If you need to report an urgent issue, for example, something that poses a danger to health and safety, call us on our usual customer numbers and you'll hear further advice on what to do.