When a site needs gritting
- Staff and visitors cross the car park on icy mornings
- Ramps, steps and entrances stay frosty in the shade
- Disabled bays and the path to the door freeze overnight
- Residents use communal paths and steps through the winter
- The site has no gritting plan for the coming winter
Winter gritting in Swansea
Gritting in Swansea covers the ground left to the occupier: car parks, service yards, loading bays and the paths to the door. On the Enterprise Park the estate road may be salted while a unit's own yard ices over.
Retail units around Morfa and Llansamlet have large car parks, and the walking routes between cars, trolley bays and entrances are treated first.
Get a quote in SwanseaSwansea sites: who grits what
Swansea Council salts about 45% of the road network, including key roads to industrial and shopping centres. Car parks and paths on private land are for the occupier to treat.
Very few housing estate roads are gritted, and pavements and cycle routes are not routinely pre-salted. The council's gritting route map shows which roads it covers.
Rain washes salt away, so a wet, cold spell can mean treating a site more than once. Most sites want salt down before staff and customers arrive.
Areas of Swansea we cover
- Swansea Enterprise Park SA6 and SA7
- Llansamlet and Swansea Vale SA7
- Morriston SA6
- Clydach SA6
- Landore SA1
- City centre SA1
- Fforestfach SA5
- Sketty SA2
- Gorseinon SA4
What gritting covers
Routes marked in order of priority on a plan of the site.
Salt spread when frost, ice or snow is forecast for your area.
Treatment of parking areas, disabled bays and access roads.
Pedestrian routes between parking and entrances treated by hand.
How a gritting arrangement works
- Marking the routes
Priority routes are marked on a site plan or aerial view in autumn.
- Agreeing the triggers
The forecast conditions that start a visit, and the times visits happen, are agreed with you.
- Treating the routes
Salt goes down on the priority routes first, then on lower-priority areas.
What the price depends on in Swansea
- The area of car parks, roads and paths
- The number of priority routes
- The trigger conditions and visit times agreed
- How many treatments a cold spell needs
- The size of a retail car park and its walking routes to the entrance
- The trigger temperature and the order of areas agreed at set-up
Winter gritting in Swansea: questions
Does the council grit the road into our unit on the Enterprise Park?
It may, as the council's routes include key roads serving industrial centres, and its gritting route map shows which. The car park and yard inside your boundary are not covered.
Can we use salt from the grit bin at the end of our road?
No. Swansea Council keeps the grit in its bins for adopted public roads, and private sites are expected to supply their own.
Which parts of a site are normally gritted?
Entrances, steps, ramps, disabled bays, the walking routes from the car park to the door, and loading areas. A site plan with those areas marked is the starting point for a price.
Gritting for a Swansea site
Send the site address, a plan or aerial photo of the car park and paths, the days and hours the site opens, and the areas with the most foot traffic.
This service is carried out by Limeworks Outdoor Services, a Dragon Multi-Trade brand.