Early morning inspections of major shopping precincts, subways and pedestrian overbridges are carried out and treatment of any hoar frost or ice is carried out.  In severe weather conditions, especially when snow or ice may remain for some days, consideration is given, in priority order, to the treatment of pedestrian routes - footways and pavements in the following order:-

• Town centre streets/main pedestrian routes
• Shopping frontages
• Busy pedestrian routes
• Hospital and Doctors surgery frontages/routes
• School frontages/routes
• Community centre frontages
• Steep sections of footways
• Predominately elderly residents areas
• Other residential areas
• Industrial Estates