Council facilities opening hours

Service centres | Libraries | Aquatic Centres | Public holiday opening hours

Service centres

Kāpiti Coast District Council

Civic Building, 175 Rimu Road, Paraparaumu

Phone: 04 296 4700

Toll Free: 0800 486 486 (also afterhours call centre)

Fax: 04 296 4830

Email: [email protected]

Civic Building open 9am–5pm Monday to Friday

Waikanae Service Centre

Waikanae Library
Mahara Place
Waikanae

Phone: 04 296 4700

Toll Free: 0800 486 486

Fax: 04 293 4820

Open 9am–5pm Monday to Friday

Ōtaki Service Centre

Ōtaki Library
81–83 Main Street
Ōtaki

Phone: 04 296 4700

Toll Free: 0800 486 486

Fax: 06 364 9303

Open 9am–5pm Monday to Friday

For information and procedures for our service centres at all alert levels, see our COVID-19 section. 

If you need to send us anything, you can send it to our main council office at:

Kāpiti Coast District Council
Private Bag 60601
Paraparaumu 5254

Libraries

Paraparaumu

Waikanae and Ōtaki

Paekākāriki 

For information and procedures for our libraries, please visit our COVID-19 section.

Aquatics centres

Coastlands Aquatics

Ōtaki

Waikanae

For information and procedures for our Aquatics centres, please visit our COVID-19 section. 

Visit the Aquatics section for details on price, locations and swimming timetables.

Public holiday opening hours

Some of our hours are a little different over Public Holidays for our Council and community services.

The following times apply to all New Zealand Public Holidays unless otherwise stated.

Service centres

• Paraparaumu and the Ōtaki and Waikanae Service Centre close at 3pm Christmas Eve, Friday 24 December and reopen at 9am Wednesday 5 January 2022.
• Closed on public holidays and/or observed public holidays.
• Our afterhours Call Centre will still be taking phone calls.

Building consents, resource consents and LIMs

Our offices are closed on public holidays. Building inspections are not available on public holidays.

Note that the days from 20 December to 10 January are not counted as working days in the related legislation.

Libraries

Opening hours for our libraries on public holiday hours are outlined below. 

All libraries closed on the following Public Holidays and observed days:

• Wellington Anniversary Day, Monday 24 January
• Waitangi Day, Sunday 6 February
• Waitangi Day Mondayised, Monday 7 February
• Good Friday, 15 April
• Easter Sunday and Monday, 17–18 April
• Anzac Day, Monday 25 April
• Queens Birthday, Monday 6 June
• Matariki, Friday 24 June
• Labour Day, Monday 24 October

Swimming pools

Opening hours for our swimming pools on public holiday hours are outlined below. 

Refuse and recycling collection

Kerbside collections will continue as usual on public holidays, unless otherwise stated by your kerbside collection provider.

Transfer stations