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Christmas closures

Our main offices are closed from 2pm on Christmas Eve, and we reopen on Friday 2 January 2026.

Services such as highways (including footpaths, potholes, street lights, grass verges and roads), schools, libraries and social services are all run by Essex County Council.

Businesses This includes procurement, advice and support for new businesses and commercial recycling and waste collections.

Business Rates This includes ways to pay, change of address and applying for a relief.

CCTV This includes requesting CCTV footage and visiting the control room.

Cemetery and Crematorium This includes arranging or attending a funeral, buying a memorial, and bereavement services and support

Complaints Find out how to make a complaint and how we will deal with it.

Contact your councillor Find out who represents you and how to get in touch with them.

Food business and safety This includes registering a food business, food hygiene inspections and complaining about a food premises or the food you have bought.

Contact Human Resources This includes follow-up enquiries about job applications and work experience.

Licensing This includes alcohol licensing, environmental permits, animal licensing, charitable collections and taxi licensing.

Leisure, theatres and museums This includes our leisure centres, theatre and museum, plus the festivals and special events we organise.

Property Services You can contact this service about land we own, using our land for access and council-owned garages. (You should not contact this service about planning matters.)

Taxi licensing This includes reporting lost property in a taxi and providing feedback about a recent taxi journey.

General enquiries If your enquiry is about something else that we haven't already listed, you can make a general enquiry.

Website enquiries You can use this form to contact the Web Team if you have an enquiry specifically about the website itself.