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?