As previously blogged – emailed Haringey CEO to ask for grit for pavements on priority roads and supply of pile of grit to each side road so we can help ourselves. This is the response I just received:
Dear Ms Featherstone and Councillor Gorrie
Thank you for your email and I share your concern about the welfare of residents in the borough, and I hope you will appreciate that our staff are working extremely hard to keep the borough moving. I know you will also recognise that the cold weather has been prolonged and shows no sign of abating, so we are planning carefully to achieve optimum effect of existing and future stocks.
The council’s contractor Enterprise are working to an agreed set of priorities, that we review continually as we receive weather warnings. This does include publicly accessible grit bins across the borough where the need is greatest – for example in areas with steep slopes where footing is likely to be particularly treacherous.
Yours sincerely
Dr Ita O’Donovan
Chief Executive
So – that’s a no then!
Also – note the ‘agreed priorities’ but clearly from the 26 Priority 1 roads ungritted last time and the 63 ungritted Priority 2 roads – even the ‘agreed priorities’ are not being delivered. As I am sending Ms Donovan the named list of these roads – I look forward to seeing what action she and the Council will be taking.
And – reading between the lines – is she saying they haven’t got enough salt or grit?
Lynne Featherstone 
Would be interesting to know why the pavement behind the children services building in Wood Green was being cleared of snow this lunchtime. Wouldn’t want the council’s smokers falling over. Sorry didn’t get a photo.
I am not that surprised that Hornsey Lane wasn’t gritted yet again although it is
a main & through road used by emergency vehicles and the W5 route as I mentioned previously.
I’ve discovered it’s a Priority 1 road as well. The pavements and roads are
treacherous and it’s forecast to snow again today, tomorrow and for the next few weeks.
Might you suggest that Haringey puts a map on its web site showing us where the grit bins are and we’ll sort at least some of the problems ourselves at much much lower cost. We don’t need to be nannied – especially not badly.
This is assuming there are any.
Yes I know that Haringey put the gritting map on their site with not enough
gritting information it seems to me that they are intentionally being vague
so that their residents are “left in the dark” (so to speak).
Lynne that’s just what I’d cynically worked out about the “non-” gritters,
yet again and as you may know that this arctic weather has been forecast to
go on until the middle of January.