The public holiday over King’s Birthday weekend 2025 will see temporary changes to some Council services and facilities.

Expect more traffic and people as Glow in the Park returns to the Ashburton Domain on Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. There are also plenty of other activities at Council facilities over the weekend.

Want to know more about Glow? Head to glowinthepark.nz

Kerbside Rubbish and Recycling

Ashburton’s kerbside collection service will not be affected by the public holiday on Monday 2 June, so people whose bins are normally emptied on a Monday should put them out for collection as usual by 7.30am.

Resource Recovery Parks

The Ashburton Resource Recovery Park will be open 9am-5pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday 2 June.

Rakaia Resource Recovery Park will be open Saturday as usual, but closed on Monday.

The Methven greenwaste facility will not be affected, and will be open Sunday 12-4pm as usual.

Ashburton Library

The Ashburton Library will be open Saturday and Sunday (10-4pm), but closed on Monday 2 June.

Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum

The Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum will be open over all three days, 10-4pm.

Explore four new exhibition in the gallery space, including a selection of work from the gallery’s civic collection. In the museum area, check out the Puaka Matariki exhibition that opens 30 May, and take a trip down memory land with a collection of photographs from the Ashburton Guardian taken 50 years ago in 1975.

EA Networks Centre

EA Networks Centre will be open the three days of the long weekend. It will operate usual hours Saturday and Sunday, from 7am-7pm (though the pool and gym will close at 6pm). On Monday the centre will be open from 10am-5pm.

The stadium is closed from 31 May-2 June for the Under 16 Tupuranga Netball Championship.

Saturday’s learn to swim schedule is as normal, though there are no lessons on King’s Birthday. Group fitness classes are as normal on Saturday and Sunday; King’s Birthday classes are Aquafit at 10am, Revolution at 12.15pm and The Trip at 3.30pm.

Customer Services

Council’s administration services at Te Whare Whakatere on Baring Square East will close at 5pm on Friday 30 May, and re-open at 8.30am on Tuesday 3 June.

If you have a problem or urgently need to contact us, then the afterhours/24 hours-a-day service will be operating - please phone 03 307 7700.

Emails, Snap Send Solves and website requests will be cleared when the office opens for business as usual on Tuesday.

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