Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

County Durham Partnership

The County Durham Partnership is made up of key public, private and voluntary sector organisations that work together to improve the quality of life for the people within County Durham.

We are the lead member of the County Durham Partnership and together with our partners we have developed the County Durham Vision 2035, which sets out what we would want the county to look like in 15 years' time.

The partnership has five lead thematic partnerships, detailed below, which each concentrate on specific areas of work:

Contact County Durham Partnership

Email countydurhampartnership@durham.gov.uk
Telephone 03000 263 593