Housing Pendle's gritting plans
What we're doing to safeguard our customers
With the winter snow already making an appearance, Housing Pendle is taking appropriate steps to safeguard our customers and tenants around our properties.
Given the advice from current information, all paths to front entrances and car parks of main offices, sheltered courts and community centres, should have grit provided and that this would be applied by staff as soon as possible following a reasonable snow fall.
This service would only be available during normal working days and hours. The grit bins at these properties would be topped up throughout the winter season, as long as the grit can be adequately purchased. These will be classed as Category 1 areas.
In addition to this, where the company has provided grit bins around other sheltered/link schemes, these will be topped up throughout the winter season (as above).
However, this grit would not normally be spread by our staff. Should there be prolonged periods of sustained freezing this will be reassessed on an individual case basis. These will be classed as Category 2 areas.
Finally, in very extreme weather for prolonged periods, other areas of high use and of high risk factors would be examined on an individual basis, but only after the Category 1 and 2 areas had been made safe. Factors affecting this would be vulnerability of residents, logistics of travel, location and estimated usage.
Some paths may also be signed as closed should they be deemed as too high a risk to leave open, even when gritted.
Playgrounds and play areas would not be gritted and we would ask parents to use common sense during icy weather. However, fallen leaves may be cleared if deemed to be a high risk.
Category 1 areas :
Sheltered Schemes : O’Hagan Court Brierfield, Hollins Court and Pendle Court, Barnoldswick, Valley Gardens, Earby
Community Centres: Hodge House, Railway Street; Marsden, Newfield Drive Nelson; Northolme, Earby; Coates – (closed at present); North Valley, Byron Road, Birtwistle Ave, Colne; Holmefield House, Barrowford.
Category 2 areas:
Beech Tree Close, Berkeley Close, Boothman Place, Bracewell Close, Imperial Gardens, Lansbury Place, Lloyd Close Marsden Crescent, Swinden Hall Rd and Williams Place, Nelson; Boulsworth Dr, Trawden; Halmote Ave, Higham; Breeze Close, Foulridge; Wentcliffe Drive, Shaw Square and Linden Court, Earby; The Crescent, Stratford Way, Oak St., High St., Cross St. West, Clevland St., Allendale St (including St Stephen's Way) and Alan Haigh Court, Colne; Rothesay Rd, Ellend Rd and Birtwistle Close, Brierfield; Ingham St., Barrowford; Langsford Close, Barnoldswick.
