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North Somerset schools will be closed for the day, many shops will close, and the Royal Mail has also announced its postal services will be suspended on the day.
Recycling and waste
There will be no recycling and waste collections in North Somerset next Monday so that the focus of the day can be on paying respect to Her Majesty.
Recycling and waste collections are noisy activities by their nature so cancelling collections for the day will give communities the chance to pay their respects in peace and give crews a day off to be with their families and watch the funeral.
Revised arrangements will be put in place for collections during the rest of the week.
If you’re due a black bin waste collection or garden waste collection next week, please put out your containers a day later than normal as collections will be made from Tuesday to Saturday.
Recycling and food waste collections will still take place on normal collection days except for those households due a collection on Monday (19 September). Instead, put your containers out the following week, on Monday 26 September.
If you’ll miss your recycling and food waste collections on Monday, you can put out additional items for recycling the following week.
These should be washed, squashed and sorted to help crews and speed up collection times.
Extra items can be put in loosely tied carrier bags, apart from glass, with a different type of recycling in each bag.
The area’s three recycling centres at Backwell, Portishead and Weston-super-Mare will also be closed.
Leisure centres
Leisure centres in North Somerset will be closed or opening with reduced hours on Monday to give users and staff time to pay their respects and watch the funeral.
Opening hours next Monday will be:
- Backwell – open 7am-10.30am and 3.30pm-9pm
- Hutton Moor, Weston - open 6.30am-10.30am and 4pm-9.30pm
- Parish Wharf, Portishead - closed all day
- Scotch Horn, Nailsea - open 6.30am-10.30am and 4pm-9pm
- Strode, Clevedon - closed all day
Libraries
All libraries, including The Campus, will be closed on Monday.
The state funeral
The state funeral will take place at 11am on Monday in Westminster Abbey, the historic church where Britain's kings and queens are crowned and where The Queen's coronation took place in 1953. It was also where Her Majesty married Prince Philip in 1947.
Guests will include members of her family, senior UK politicians, heads of state from across the world and representatives from charities she supported.
The event will be broadcast on BBC television and will be available to stream on iPlayer, with updates on the BBC news website and radio channels. Other networks are also expected to broadcast the event.
The requirement to hold a TV licence for viewing ceremonial broadcasts - including The Queen's funeral - has been relaxed by the BBC Board until Wednesday 21 September.
Details of larger-scale public events to be held across the country to mark the funeral will be published on the government's website.
A day-by-day guide from now to the funeral is available on the BBC website.