Information request
Our reference: 649136

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Dear Scott
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 8 January 2025.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours sincerely
 
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Governance Officer
Information Governance - Legal & Corporate Services
 
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Dear Scott
 
The roads are gritted as shown on our website. To assist you, I have
provided an extract below:
 

"There are 737 miles of roads in Wirral and we cannot afford to grit every
one of them. So we prioritise 288 miles of well-used major roads and bus
routes. Our fleet of ten gritters spreads a total of 2,100 tonnes of salt
in an average winter.

Which roads are gritted?

We spread salt along ten pre-planned routes and each round normally takes
three to five hours to complete. When we make the decision to grit we aim
to have the first gritter on the road within an hour.

Roads which are gritted are:

• main roads with a lot of traffic
• roads servicing emergency facilities such as hospitals, ambulance
services, fire and rescue and police services
• public transport routes and access to stations, bus garages and depots
• roads servicing main industrial and business centres
• known problem areas, for example, significant hills and exposed areas

Gritting of other locations

Footways, footpaths, off-road cycleways and public car parks are not
gritted as part of the regular rounds. During prolonged periods of ice and
snow we may grit some of these areas according to the level of risk.

I hope this answers your query
 
Yours sincerely
 
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Governance Officer.
 

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Dear Scott
 
The Freedom of Information Act provides a right of access to recorded
information. You have been provided with the recorded information held in
relation to gritting and I can add nothing further to my earlier response.
 
If you wish to make a complaint regarding the council's gritting service
please do so using the following link [1]Complain or give a compliment to
Wirral Council | wirral.gov.uk

 
Yours sincerely
 
Lynette Paterson
Principal Information Governance Officer
 

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