Sandy wrote, quoting Lewisham Council:

Does thid mean that 'non-priority routes' get gritted only of someone contacts the council to ask them to do so?

Dipsolala wrote:

I think giving local people the grit and asking them to spread it themselves is actually quite a good idea, if the only other option is not to have the road gritted at all. I wish we'd been given the opportunity of doing this in my street. Better still, why not have permanent bins of grit on the street, for use when required? I believe this used to happen in some areas.