Leeds City Council provides over 500 different services to the people of Leeds.

Contacting a council service
Individual council services publish their contact details, together with other useful information such as location maps, throughout this website. If you know which service you would like to contact, please use the online A-Z of services to find details of the service and contact them directly. 

General enquiries
For general enquiries to Leeds City Council, please use our online enquiry form. Your email will be forwarded to the relevant service to deal with your enquiry. To make a complaint or a compliment to the council about any council service, please use our online complaints form.

The general switchboard telephone number for Leeds City Council is 0113 234 8080 and minicom 0845 127 1113

Emergency contacts
If you require a council service in an emergency outside of normal service hours (Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00, unless otherwise stated), you can contact our emergency out of hours service. For further advice about what counts as an emergency and what numbers to ring, please visit the list of emergency telephone numbers.

Press and media enquiries
The corporate communications office is open for press and media enquires 08:00 - 17:30 Monday to Thursday and 08:00 - 17:00 on Fridays. Telephone: 0113 247 4328. There is an out of hours service for urgent press enquiries which is available at all other times, on 0113 395 0244.

Contacting your local councillor
Contact details for all 99 elected members of Leeds City Council are published on this website. Follow the weblink for more information about councillors in Leeds, who your local councillor is and how you can contact them.

Chief Executive's office
The Chief Executive of Leeds City Council's office is based at:

Civic Hall
Calverley Street
Leeds
LS1 1UR

Other useful information
Whenever you contact the council, whether it's by phone, email or post, it will always help us to deal with your enquiry as quickly as possible if you tell us;

• your name;
• your telephone number if you would like us to phone you;
• your address if you would like us to write to you.

If you are reporting a problem such as a faulty street light, graffiti or missed bin collection, please give us as many details about the problem as you can. Tell us;

• what the problem is;
• the address or street name where the problem has occurred;
• the date that the problem occurred or when you first became aware of it.

If you are requesting information, please make it clear to us exactly what you want to know.