Winter Service FAQs
Winter can bring tricky road conditions. With a small workforce and miles of rural roads to cover, we take a prioritised approach to treating our roads for ice and snow. Full details are available on our Winter Service Plan page but here are some of the most commonly received questions.
Can I request my road to be gritted if I’m a key worker, or an older person who can’t get out?
(Other road gritting queries)
We have already identified our primary gritting routes through our winter service plan. Our gritters are dedicated to those routes initially, moving on to the secondary routes where time, weather conditions and resources allow.
While we would aim to have good accessible network of roads every day, when we experience prolonged periods of snow we have to focus on the primary routes to keep the majority of residents moving.
Unfortunately, we’re therefore unable to consider specific roads to accommodate certain groups of people.
