Contact us
If you know which service you want to contact you can find their details in the list below.
- Adult services
- Benefits
- Bins waste and recycling
- Business rates
- Children social care
- Civic enforcement
- Council tax
- Cemeteries and Crematorium
- Customer services
- Darlington Hippodrome
- Dolphin centre
- Eastbourne sports complex
- Elections and electoral registration
- Events
- Families information team
- Head of Steam
- Housing
- Jobs and careers
- Learning and skills
- Libraries
- Licensing
- Parks and open spaces
- Planning
- Press and media enquiries
- Public health
- Report it online
- Register office
- School admissions
- School governors
- Special educational needs service (SEN)
- Street scene & environment
- Trading standards (Consumer Direct)
- Transport and streets
Adult services
Helping people with impairments live an independent life in their communities. Support for older people and carers.
- 01325 406111
- emergency duty team: 01642 524552
Benefits
How to find out what you are entitled to and how to claim.
Telephone opening times
- Monday, 8:30-3:45
- Tuesday, 8:30-3:45
- Wednesday, 8:30-3:45
- Thursday, 9:30-3:45
- Friday, 8:30-3:45
Bins waste and recycling
Children social care
If you have a concern regarding child protection or young person, please contact us
Civic enforcement
We’re here to make Darlington a safer, cleaner and more appealing place to live, work and visit.
Council tax
How to pay your Council tax and apply for reductions.
Telephone opening times
- Monday, 8:30-3:45
- Tuesday, 8:30-3:45
- Wednesday, 8:30-3:45
- Thursday, 9:30-3:45
- Friday, 8:30-3:45
Customer services
View our current opening times
The customer contact centre closes on bank holidays.
- View any important announcements
- View car parks in Darlington
If you are visiting us by public transport, the Traveline journey planner [external link] will show you the best way to get here.
Address
Town Hall
Feethams
Darlington
County Durham
DL1 5QT,
Eastbourne sports complex
Eastbourne sports complex pages
- 01325 243177
- Minicom: 01325 243177
- [email protected]
Elections and electoral registration
Housing
These pages will tell you everything you need to know about applying for a Council home and paying your rent.
- 01325 405333
- emergency homelessness number: 01642 524552
- Darlington home online
- pay your rent online
- [email protected]
Press and media enquiries
Public health
Register office
- 01325 406400
- Urgent marriages and civil partnerships: 07932 538910
- [email protected]
Street scene & environment
Includes refuse and recycling, environmental health, garden waste, trees, planning services, allotments and building control.
Transport and streets
Includes parking, blue badges, roadworks and bus passes.