Christmas and New Year closure information
Our council offices and phone lines will close at 4pm on Wednesday 24 December and reopen at 9am on Monday 5 January 2026.
See our service arrangements for customers during this time.
Using this website
Accessibility statement
Using this website
We are committed to providing a website that is as accessible and usable to as many people as possible. For example, that means you should be able to adapt the site to suit your needs, as follows:
- change colours, contrast levels and fonts
- zoom in up to 300% without the text spilling off the screen
- navigate most of the website using just a keyboard
- navigate most of the website using speech recognition software
- listen to most of the website using a screen reader (including the most recent versions of JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver)
The website text has been made as simple as possible to understand.
AbilityNet has advice on making your device easier to use if you have a disability.
Skip links
To help keyboard-only and screen reader users to move through a page, a skip link appears when the tab key is used. The invisible 'Skip to content' link at the top left hand corner of each page allows the cursor to jump to the main content of the page.
Opening PDF documents
Some downloadable documents on this website are in Portable Document Format (PDF). If you don't have the software on your computer to open a PDF, the Adobe Acrobat website allows you to download the free Adobe Reader needed to do this. The current version of Acrobat Reader has improved accessibility features and includes the facility to read the text out loud.
Useful websites to help with accessibility
