Decision Maker: Corporate Director of Business and Environmental Services
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Reductions to some of the minimum salt
spreading rates in our operational procedures when implementing the
winter service policy, as detailed in Appendix B of the
report.
The Winter Service Plan and Decision Matrix are duly altered to
reflect these changes.
Due to the experience last season of using the
partially reduced spread rates, along with the confidence in
gritter accuracy, coupled with the recent £2.2m purchase by
NY Highways of 18 new gritters. Whilst any definite cost saving is
impossible to predict as it will depend on the prevailing weather
conditions, it is expected that these reductions will save around
NYCC £75k during a normal season. This is in line with our
Medium Term Financial Savings strategy.
Publication date: 08/10/2021
Date of decision: 24/09/2021