Asset Management Plan - Newcastle City Council

Winter Maintenance Life Cycle PlanPhysical assetsNewcastle City Council have two salt stockpiles the main stockpile is housed atthe Rothbury Terrace depot in the east of the City, with a reserve stockpile beinghoused at the Whitehouse Enterprise Centre in the west of the City. Bothstockpiles comprise approximately 11,000 tonnes of salt.The authority has 14 mechanical gritting machines throughout the City asdetailed in table 21.2.1Table 21.2.1 Types and locations of Mechanical Gritting machinesGritter Type Size Depot & NumberFixed Body 16 Tonne Rothbury Terrace 4NoFixed Body 10 Tonne Rothbury Terrace 8NoDemountable 8 Tonne Newington Road 2NoGrit BinsThere are at present 6 large grit bins and 427 small grit bins located throughoutthe City. (For further location detail refer to the Newcastle City Council wintermaintenance ice & snow plan)21.3 ConditionThe condition of the highway asset regarding winter maintenance is as a directresult of the reactive work carried out on any given day and thus cannot berecorded within this document.21.4 DemandsThe demands placed upon the winter maintenance function are to ensure, as faras is reasonably practicable, that the safe passage along a highway is notendangered by snow or ice. In practice it is impracticable to treat all roads withinthe City of Newcastle and therefore a priority list of roads and footpaths to betreated has been set up.Those roads identified for pre-treatment to prevent the formation of snow and iceon the carriageway are those named on the primary and secondary grittingroutes, appendices 3 and 4, within the snow & ice plan.The primary gritting routes comprise of the following category of road:• Scheduled bus routes• Strategic link roads• Trunk roads• Principal roads• Other classified roads217