Winter gritting

Priority one roads are treated as high priority, we aim to treat them within the first two hours, these include:

• 'A' class carriageways, such as main roads
• designated routes to emergency hospitals

Priority two roads are treated after, we aim to complete treating them, within four hours. These include:

• 'B' roads
• major roads carrying four service buses or more per hour between 6am and 10am
• roads serving emergency services
• public transport centres
• secondary schools and colleges
• roads with a slope over 10 per cent and carrying more than 1,000 vehicles per day
• main access roads to rural communities and villages

Minor roads leading to houses or farms are not gritted unless we have agreed to because of special circumstances.

Other roads are not gritted when frost or icy conditions are forecast but are after they become icy when all the priority one and two roads have been treated. This is only done when the this is likely to last for 24 hours or more.