Please provide the following information for each of the last three winter seasons:
Winter 2023/24
Winter 2024/25
Winter 2025/26 (to date)
1) Gritting activity
a) The total number of days on which gritting or salting was carried out.
Winter 2023/24 – 50 days
Winter 2024/25 – 66 days
Winter 2025/26 (to date) – 26 days
b) The total number of gritting or salting runs undertaken.
Winter 2023/24 – 1,446 runs
Winter 2024/25 – 1,906 runs
Winter 2025/26 (to date) – 326 runs
c) The total distance of road treated through gritting or salting activity, measured in miles or kilometres.
Winter 2023/24 – 97,971km
Winter 2024/25 – 192,27km
Winter 2025/26 (to date) – 11,037km
2) Time and resource use (where recorded)
a) The total number of staff hours spent on gritting or salting activity.
b) The total number of vehicle hours spent on gritting or salting activity.
Devon County Council does not hold information to answer questions 2a and 2b.
3) Costs and budgets
a) The total amount spent on gritting and salting operations in each winter period.
b) The allocated budget for winter road gritting and salting for each winter period.
In response to questions 3a and 3b, please refer to the table below:
| Actual £ | Budget £ | |
| 2023/24 | 2,126,564 | 2,406,000 |
| 2024/25 | 2,949,496 | 2,528,000 |
| 2025/26 to 31 Dec | 632,290 | 2,629,000 |
4) Priority routes
Please confirm whether your authority operates designated priority or ‘snow routes’ for winter maintenance.
Please refer to the Devon County Council Winter Service Plan, published on the Council website.
5) Network coverage
a) The total length of the highway network maintained by your authority (in miles or kilometres).
b) The approximate length or percentage of this network that is included within precautionary or priority gritting routes.
Please refer to the Devon County Council Winter Service Plan, published on the Council website.