Due to the exceptionally hot weather and the hot weather health alert in place, we’ve taken the decision to cancel all recycling and garden waste collections tomorrow (Thursday 25 June 2026) for health and safety reasons.

We’re really sorry to anyone this affects and thank you in advance for your understanding. With temperatures forecast to reach 35°C after lunch, we need to ensure that our crews have completed their rounds before it becomes too hot to work safely.

To do this, we’ll be asking our recycling and garden crews to help on black bin collections, and we’ll also be diverting all the waste collection vehicles we can to help with black bins. Any remaining crews will help with food waste caddy deliveries in the caddy delivery vehicles we’ve hired for this purpose.

If your blue bin or bag is due to be emptied tomorrow, we’ll empty it on your next normal blue bin day, when we’ll also take extra side waste. If your garden waste bin is due to be emptied, we’ll empty it on your next normal brown bin day and we’ll also put on an additional collection at the end of the year to make up for your missed collection.

Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience and thank you for supporting our efforts to look after our crews during this period of extreme heat.

We are in contact with all known rough sleepers in the district to encourage them into accommodation during the current weather conditions, as part of our severe weather emergency protocol, which is now active. If you are concerned about a rough sleeper who you feel needs help, please call us on 01543 308000 or outside of office hours call 01527 406643. Find out more about our severe weather emergency protocol.

Do I need a licence?

Taxis drivers, vehicles and private hire operators

If you want to work as a taxi driver in Lichfield district you will need to apply to us for a taxi driver's licence.

If you own your own vehicle(s) that you/other licenced taxi drivers want to use as a taxi/hackney or private hire vehicle, you will also need to apply to us to get your vehicle(s) licenced.

If you want to operate a private hire vehicle (i.e. when customers call you to make bookings), you will also need to apply to us for a private hire operator's licence.