More from the City Council as of 5pm Monday 20th Dec

Roads Maintenance

Two bulk gritters, complete with snow ploughs, have been working throughout the day on our priority gritting routes in the City to enable the majority of bus routes to continue to operate.

In addition to the two main gritting routes, additional snowploughs and gritters have been deployed across the City to deal with localised problems.

The Direct Services Streetscene teams have been re-deployed to clear snow and apply grit to high footfall and shopping areas across the City including the City Centre, Summertown, Headington, Cowley Road and other local shopping areas such as Templar Road, Cherwell Drive, St Nicholas Road, Blackbird Leys Road and Underhill Circus.

Resources have also been deployed to clear snow and ice from the approaches to health centres including Manzil Way and Dunnock Way.

We are working closely with the County Council to manage our salt supplies and arrangements are in place to supplement our supplies from the County’s large stock at Drayton.

Our gritters will commence work at 8pm and will work through the night to cover major routes

Housing Repairs

We are currently dealing with a large number of frozen or burst water pipes and loss of heating in Council properties. Our first priority is the elderly and vulnerable but our aim is to get to everyone within our Service Standard of 24 hours for an emergency call.

Our emergency service is being run using 4×4 vehicles and we have escalation plans in place should the snow arrive this evening.