Winter Service Policy - Objectives
The council’s policy is to provide a Winter Service that so far as reasonably practicable will allow for pre-defined routes of carriageways to be treated in accordance with their priority on the highway network and prevailing weather conditions so as to prevent the formation of ice and also facilitate the removal of ice and snow from carriageways, footways and cycleways.
By determining this policy it is the intention to minimise the risk to safety that highway users confront in winter conditions and minimise the non-availability of the highway network through ice and snow.
However, this policy recognises that given the scale of financial and other resources involved in delivering the Winter Service it is not practically possible to provide the service on all parts of the highway network, neither is it possible to satisfy the requirements of all those wishing to use the highway.