Footbridge gritting

John Fareham and John Abbott have arranged for the footbridge over the railway line to be included in the winter gritting programme.

We received complaints from local residents that this bridge was prone to accumulating ice and could then be dangerous to cross.  We therefore contacted the officers and we asked them to arrange for the bridge to be gritted as part of the regular schedule when neighbouring areas were being treated; we have since seen for ourselves that the bridge has indeed been gritted and had confirmation from staff at Appleton Primary School that the bridge had been treated twice in two days; this is of course encouraging but we will continue to take an interest in whether the bridge is being treated when it needs to be or not.