Gritting

Where do you grit?
When do you grit?
Are pedestrians routes gritted?

Where to grit?

Gritting priority is given to three types of roads/routes and based upon the recommendations contained in a National Code of Practice.

• priority A: strategic routes and principal roads, important classified roads, bus routes and TFL Bus stands.
• priority B: all other classified roads, important unclassified roads and bus route
• priority C: in prolonged periods of lying snow/ice, minor access roads in hilly or exposed locations will be treated, and consideration given to important footway routes (e.g. shopping precincts, etc)

Treatment of priority C locations would only be considered when conditions dictate and when all other priorities had been fully and adequately treated and resources become available.

When to grit?

The council receives a specialised winter weather forecasting service from the Met Office. The forecast, received on a daily basis, gives predictions of the possibility of freezing road temperatures, ice, frost, snow etc, and the time at which these conditions may occur. This operation is usually carried out at night.

Are pedestrians routes gritted?

In very severe weather conditions, especially when snow or ice is constant for several days, consideration is given, in priority order, to the treatment of pedestrian routes:

• town centre streets/main pedestrian routes
• shopping frontages
• busy pedestrian routes
• hospitals and doctors surgery frontages/routes
• school frontages/routes
• community centre frontages/routes
• steep sections of footway/footpaths
• predominately elderly residents areas
• other residential areas
• industrial estates

If you wish to request the council to consider the gritting of further streets or pavements not currently on the winter gritting schedule, please use the contact details below.

Alternatively, you may use this online gritting request form.

For further details contact:
E-mail: generalenquiries@towerhamlets.gov.uk
Phone: 020 7364 5004
Fax: 020 7364 3121

Click here to visit www.metoffice.gov.uk

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