Ice and snow clearing and gritting

Our aim is to keep the most important roads and some major pedestrian areas in Leeds clear of winter hazards from October to April each year. We do this to keep you safe and the local ecomony going.

Gritting

We monitor weather patterns and use specialised data to help us make the best possible decision on when we need to start gritting.

Gritting map

Our interactive map shows the primary gritting routes, the routes which have been gritted in the past 12 to 24 hours and the positions of the gritter wagons. The map is updated every 5 minutes.

How to use the map

To use the gritting map:

Find a location

Click the 'My location' icon to pin-point where you are or type your postcode into the 'Find address or place' search bar.

View the map layers

Select what you want to see from the 'Map Layers' list. Make sure you have ticked 'Gritter Tracked Data'. Gritted routes will change colour on the map depending on when they are gritted. So they will show as dark blue for the last 12 hours and light blue for roads gritted in the last 12 to 24 hours.

View the gritting map

Gritting routes

The primary gritting routes include:

• all the main roads
• most other busy roads
• most bus routes
• access to hospitals and emergency services

Gritting priority

• primary routes are always salted when ice or snow is forecast and get priority attention during long spells of winter weather
• once we have gritted the priority roads then we will grit other roads
• we aim to salt footpaths and paved areas if there is snow or frost forecast over a prolonged period

Grit bins

You can find out where your nearest grit bin is, how to get one for your street and when we refill them on our grit bins page.

Weather and travel information

You can keep up to date with weather and travel information through our travel information twitter account and travel news twitter account.

You can find additional information such as road closures, delays and diversions by visiting one.network.