Salting routes

When Hampshire County Council report Salting updates they sometimes also mention domains (North, Central, and South)

HCC may salt in one, two or all of the domains, and may also go out at different times.

Below is a map of the domains, as you can see we are in the central area.

More information can be found here:- https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/highways/severeweather/salting/saltingpolicy

Salt Bins

HCC's network of blue and yellow community salt bins have been refilled ready for the coming months, making salt freely available for anyone to spread on local roads and pavements – useful to ‘join up’ with the salting on main roads by our gritters.

A little salt goes a long way, you’ll only need one tablespoon to treat up to a square metre of road or pavement.

If you’re able to, salting your local roads when it’s forecast to be icy can be a big help for your community, reducing the risk of incident and injury, especially for those who are less mobile.

You can report salt bins needing re-filling, those that are damaged or request one for your area here: https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/highways/report-a-problem

Reporting Highway Problems

Links to report road issues are here:

Potholes:https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems/potholes

Tree/hedge problems:

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems/treehedge

Flooding/drainage issues:

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems/flooding

Pavement problems:

https://www.hants.gov.uk/transport/roadmaintenance/roadproblems/paving

Problems with rights of way:

https://www.hants.gov.uk/landplanningandenvironment/rightsofway/reportaproblem

When reporting an issue, you’ll be sent an email confirming a reference number for the report. If you would like me to follow this up for you then do please forward that message to me and I will chase for you.

With thanks to my colleague and neighbour, Nick Adams King for collating this information.

David Drew

Test Valley Central