If you’re planning to spend time on an indoor project this Labour weekend, then you’ll be able to take all your waste to the Ashburton Resource Recovery Park, which is open every day over the long holiday weekend.

The Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum, and EA Networks Centre, will also be open every day over Labour weekend, though the public holiday on Monday 28 October will see temporary changes to some other Council services and facilities.

Rubbish and recycling

There is no change to kerbside rubbish and recycling collections and Monday’s collection will take place as usual, with residents to have their wheelie bins out by 7.30am. Remember to use your windstrap, whether it's windy or not.

Resource Recovery Parks

The Ashburton Resource Recovery Park will be open Saturday from 9am-6pm, Sunday from 9am-5pm, and Monday from 9am until 5pm.

The Methven green waste dropoff will be open Sunday from 12pm until 4pm.

The Rakaia Resource Recovery Park will be open on Saturday from 9am-3pm, but closed on Monday.

EA Networks Centre

Swim, put up some hoops or work out in the gym every day of the long weekend as the EA Networks Centre will be open as usual on Saturday and Sunday, and from 10am-5pm on Monday.

Gym classes on Labour Day include Aquafit at 10.15am, Revolution at 12.15pm and The Trip at 3.30pm.

There will be no swim school lessons on Monday 28 October.

Mt Hutt Memorial Hall

The Mt Hutt Memorial Hall at Methven will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10am until 4pm, and from 10am until 2pm on Monday.

Ashburton Library Te Kete Tuhinga

The Ashburton Library will be open Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm and closed on Monday.

Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum

The Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum will be open 10am-4pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

Drop in and learn something about the clever crustaceans that inhabit our seas, or peruse a timeline of highlights for the Ashburton Domain over the past 160 years.

Customer Services

Council’s Customer Services counter at Te Whare Whakatere will be closed Saturday, Sunday and Monday, re-opening on Tuesday 29 October at 8.30am. If you have a problem or urgently need to contact us, then the afterhours service will be operating - please phone 03 307 7700.

Emails, Snap Send Solves and website requests will be cleared Tuesday morning.

Public toilets around the district will be open as usual during the long weekend.

All facilities will return to normal hours on Tuesday 29 October.