Winter is here and Denbighshire County Council has been busy making sure that plans are in place to deal with any severe weather over the next few months.
One of the most common enquiries the Council receives is about school closures. The Council makes sure the website is updated in real time so parents have the latest information available. Information is also posted on the Council’s Facebook account, Twitter feeds and issued to the media.
By far the biggest issue for residents is winter gritting and the Council want residents and motorists to have a realistic picture of what it can and cannot achieve in heavy bouts of snow and icy conditions.
Denbighshire has a priority order for the clearance of ice and snow:
- Main A and B routes
- Access roads to hospital and emergency service stations
- The remainder of the precautionary salting network
- Other routes known as urgent medical and important industrial routes
- Access to public facilities – cemeteries, schools etc
- Other Class 2 and 3 roads providing access to communities
- Remaining bus and milk collection routes
- Other rural roads
- Roads serving isolated dwellings
- Other roads.
The Council also treats pavements wherever possible, but it needs to stress that it cannot treat every single road pavement in the county.
