Durham County Council has outlined how Wednesday’s planned industrial action is expected to affect services.

Received following update today in relation to Wednesday’s strike

The authority is taking measures to minimise the impact on services but residents are warned that disruption is inevitable.

Customer access points, libraries and day centres will be closed during the day of action but will reopen for business as normal on Thursday, 1 December.

Some schools and nurseries will also be closed. An up-to-date list of schools affected is available at www.durham.gov.uk/schoolclosures

Locomotion at Shildon, Bishop Auckland Town Hall and Durham County Record Office will be closed to the public.

The Gala Theatre and DLI Museum and Durham Art Gallery will be open. Killhope: the North of England Lead Mining Museum has already closed for the winter.

Spennymoor and Newton Aycliffe Leisure Centres will be closed and Meadowfield Leisure Centre will operate reduced hours, opening from 2.15pm to 10.15pm. All other leisure centres will open as normal.

There will be no refuse, recycling or bulky waste collections. No replacement collections will be arranged following the strike. However, all household waste recycling centres will be open during the industrial action.

All Durham County Council adult learning courses will be cancelled.

The Park and Ride service will operate as normal.