Minutes:
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• Gritting:
The council’s policy is given on the web site: https://new.enfield.gov.uk/services/
roads-and-transport/roads-and-pavements/gritting-and-snow-clearance/
The gradient and density of use of roads is taken into account when determining
the priority for gritting priority 2 roads.
Emergency vehicle drivers will respond in accordance with their training and the
appreciation for the conditions being presented to them at the time of the
emergency. During the winter months of November to April each year Enfield
operates a winter service receiving daily forecasts which decision makers will
assess and instruct a decision to grit or not. On every grit over 30% of the entire
carriageway network in Enfield is treated and in total Enfield’s priority network is
193km in length. If following snowfall the forecast is for further snow or freezing
temperatures the Council may consider treating the priority 2 network, subject to
the availability of resources inc, salt, plant, labour etc and ensuring that the
priority 1 network remains open.
When there has been considerable snowfall and this is then followed by
forecasted freezing temperatures for several days we do consider the placement
of self-help salt sacks across the borough at strategic and vulnerable locations
along with treating the Council’s Priority 2 carriageway network. This is
dependent on the long range weather forecasts and the availability of salt
supplies for keeping the Priority 1 carriageway network open for cross borough
travel.
The Highways Engineer has now added Seaforth Gardens to the list of sites
where self help sacks may be placed if there has been considerable snowfall
and this is then followed by forecasted freezing temperatures for several days.
This is dependent on the availability of salt supplies and keeping the Priority 1
carriageway network open for cross borough travel.
• Progress on the New River site next to Green Lanes
There has been delay during the hot dry summer due to the mature trees
awaiting planting. They were planted a week ago and our contractor was back
on site 05/11/18.
• Street cleaning (especially Fernleigh Road and Woodberry Avenue)
Woodberry Avenue and Fernleigh Road are both cleansed every Wednesday.
During the period of leaf fall, the regular team will litter pick them and a leaf
clearance team will remove the leaves. They were cleansed by the leafing team
on 3 October and will be cleared again this week.
• Replacing bins after emptying so that they do not block the footway
Our crews are currently undergoing refresher training, and bin returns have
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been added to the program.
Crews are required to return the bin to the point of collection, normally the
property boundary unless agreed otherwise. Where the bin is presented on the
pavement crews are advised to leave them as neat as possible without causing
obstruction.
• Slippery red paving in Broadwalk
The footway at The Broadwalk is on the Local List of heritage assets (https://
new.enfield.gov.uk/services/planning/enfield-local-heritage-list-may-18-
planning.pdf see entry 209). The Broadwalk paving has been identified as a rare
surfacing adopted by Southgate Urban District Council in 1938 and is part of the
local identity of this part of the borough.
Local listing is a means for a community and a local authority to jointly identify
heritage assets that are valued as distinctive elements of the local historic
environment. Inclusion on the Local List means that the item’s conservation as a
heritage asset is a material consideration when deciding on planning
applications. Proposals for change will be decided taking a balanced judgement
having regard to the scale of any harm or loss and the significance of the
heritage asset. Whilst public footway and highway works often do not require
planning permission, Council officers would take heritage significance into
account
Fitness for purpose and safety are however important considerations. The red
block paving has been down for a substantial amount of time and over the years
has lost some of its resistance. However there is no surface treatment that the
Highways Service could apply to improve traction. The only alternative would be
to renew the red blocks. There is no funding currently available to do this
throughout the whole road under the current capital programme. Furthermore, if
it were to be renewed, under the current highway maintenance policy, the red
blocks would normally be replaced with asphalt. Whilst the local significance of
the red blocks would be taken into account, any deviation from asphalt would
need to be allowed for in project funding.