While the average minimum temperature for Norwich is generally at least a degree of so above zero even during winter, actual minimum temperatures can go at low as -10 degrees C in December and January, and sub zero temperatures are possible as early as October and as late as April. These low temperatures will most commonly occur overnight, resulting in icy roads, walkways and car parks in the early morning just as businesses are opening and workers and shoppers are arriving, and where usage of these areas is often at a peak. To reduce the risk of accident and injury to employees, customers and other visitors, many retailers and businesses are using the services of Ice Watch to provide car park gritting in Norwich on the occasions when it is actually needed.
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In addition, Ice Watch also provide car park gritting services in Norfolk towns such as King's Lynn, Great Yarmouth, Swaffham and Thetford. King's Lynn, close to the north Norfolk coast, has an even greater need for car park gritting than Norwich. Here, the average minimum temperature barely rises above zero degrees C from December to February. And absolute minimum temperatures of below zero can occur any time from September to June, falling as low as -18 degrees C in December.
While protecting against accident and injury is clearly the priority, ensuring adequate car park gritting in Norwich is also vital for the economic life of the area. This can be seen by looking more closely at the position of Norwich and the variety of economic activity there.
Norwich is an ancient city and county town of Norfolk. It has traditionally provided a centre for a largely rural county, but it also had some strategic importance in the middle ages, resulting in the building of Norwich castle which still dominates the city centre. Nowadays the City of Norwich is a thriving commercial and business centre which is also home to the University of East Anglia as well as an excellent shopping centre and, of course, Norwich City Football Club's Carrow Road stadium. The city therefore attracts large numbers of visitors of all kinds into the city, many of whom travel by car from more outlying areas. The city centre and surrounding business and retail parks therefore include a large number of car parks to accommodate these visitors, and making them available regardless of the weather is essential to maintain commercial activity.
In addition, Norwich sits on important trade routes such as the A43 connecting the important fishing port of Great Yarmouth with the midlands, and the A12 connecting the county to London. A great deal of industrial traffic therefore travels either from Norfolk, taking agricultural produce to London and the rest of the UK, or into Norfolk to supply the local population. There are a number of haulage and distribution centres in and around Norwich, as well as other large Norfolk towns such as Thetford and East Dereham. Haulage firms and warehouses often operate overnight or in the early morning when the risk of ice is greatest, and need to be able to keep industrial traffic moving. Gritting Norwich lorry parks and distribution centres is therefore extremely important.
Ice Watch can do more than simply arrange car park gritting, however. We provide a complete monitoring and record keeping service, enabling your company or organisation to demonstrate that it has taken all reasonable steps to ensure the safety of its employees and visitors. This is extremely useful in the event of an injury claim against you. And by monitoring temperatures at your site for you, we save you the headache of wondering whether to call us out or not. In the event that we expect gritting to be necessary we call you – giving you the option to say No if you wish – and then carry out gritting as required.
If you are responsible for a car park in Norwich or Norfolk and would like to find out more about how Ice Watch can help your company to keep operating smoothly this coming winter, call us today on 01728 633900.
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