Lewisham's full winter plan can be found by clicking on 'Winter Service Plan' in the right hand column here. (I can't work out how to link directly to the pdf document.) It's astonishing that untrained people risking their backs by doing their own gritting from Council salt bins is considered a bigger risk than people falling over and breaking their backs on untreated surfaces - but that's the crazy world we seem to be living in! Also that the Council's legal advisers are still warning that if people clear pavements they could possibly be risking being held responsible if people fall on it.

The Governments advice an clearing snow now seems to be pretty sensible - see here. If everyone cleared the pavement outside their own house, getting around in the snow would be much easier.

Roads 'on the hill' do seem to have been treated prior to today's snow but at a pretty mean spreading rate which only covered a narrow strip up the middle of most of the roads. I hope their will be a lot more salt spread if tomorrow's forecast heavy dump arrives.

I note that Southwark do have salt bins around - In a short walk today I noticed one at the junction of Wood Vale and Forest Hill Road and another by the no 63 terminus stop. Perhaps they use different legal advisers?