Northamptonshire has one of the UK's longest gritting routes in the country and every parish in the county has a gritted route in and out to ensure villages remain connected. The northern areas of the county have been the worst affected (Image: Google). But Liberal Democrat leader on the council, Cllr Chris Stanbra (Oakley, Corby), says … But that still leaves 1,157 miles of A and B roads for the County Council's 22 gritting lorries to look after and they will be out on pre-planned routes from early-evening on Tuesday. Welcome to Northamptonshire County Council's online mapping service. Councillor Heather Smith is in charge of Highways at Northamptonshire County Council. County Council Gritting Information (alphabetical order) Buckinghamshire County Council Map showing location of gritting vehicles Precautionary It provides interactive mapping that allows you to find a variety of information. The councillor in charge of highways in Northamptonshire has guaranteed that the county’s roads will be ‘safe’ ahead of cuts in the gritting budget. Reported via desktop in the Icy Road category by Northamptonshire County Council at 09:35, Mon 7 December 2020 Sent to Northamptonshire County Council less than a minute later. Its 27 gritting trucks have been on the go since December and remain hard at work as the cold spell continues. District gritting maps. You can use this facility to: Find places using a postcode, street, town/village Northamptonshire currently operates a ‘precautionary’ gritting route system, which means the county’s most-used roads are salted if weather forecasts say temperatures will drop to 0.5C or below. It is moving towards a ‘route-based forecasting’ system that will have roads gritted as-and-when the weather predicts freezing weather. Over 3,000 people have signed a petition calling on Northamptonshire County Council to reinstate gritting routes. Northamptonshire County Council has an interactive map showing the priority its gritting team has assigned to roads across the county. Northamptonshire County Council's gritters were out on the roads this morning, gritting all major roads ahead of an extended period of sub zero temperatures over the next few days.. Google Traffic shows that many of the roads in the northern part of the county have been affected by snow. This service is based upon the council's Geographic Information System (GIS). It’s part of a move to save Northamptonshire County Council £475,000. Larger-scale maps are also available to download showing gritting routes for each district: Ashfield [PDF] Bassetlaw [PDF] Broxtowe [PDF] Gedling [PDF] Mansfield [PDF] Newark and Sherwood [PDF] Rushcliffe [PDF] County map [PDF] The routes which are being downgraded – with many near schools, train stations, shops and bus stops. 200 miles of road were removed from the authority’s routine gritting list last year – including over 30 in the Hfm Region, including in Desborough, Arthingworth, Stoke Albany, Naseby and Kelmarsh – in a bid to save nearly half a million pounds £500,000. Roads are gritted when forecasts predict temperatures falling below 0.5°C. The problem of prioritising routes is ongoing, despite the let up in the snow.