Although we operate nationally, all our contractors are located locally (within 10 miles) of our clients. This reduces travel time and expense, as well as benefiting the local economy. More importantly, it improves our service time and responsiveness.
Our Milton Keynes gritting and snow clearance service includes a full site inspection and risk assessment prior to beginning a contract, to ensure we understand all your requirements in detail. We then monitor weather conditions daily, using specialist highly localised weather reports, to accurately predict when gritting is needed. When ice or snow is forecast, we will grit in advance to protect your walkways, footpaths, car parks and private roads from ice forming. We will let you know when gritting will be carried out, and full reports are provided on daily temperatures and when gritting / snow clearance was required.
We already have an operator in the Milton Keynes area so organising a contract with us is extremely straightforward. You can be assured of local expertise backed up by the resources of a national network.
In particular, one of the major benefits of using a large contractor such as Ice Watch is the level of liability insurance available to you. We have £10 million public liability insurance which automatically covers all customers who sign up to our contract services. You therefore get not just physical protection from the ice and snow, but legal protection from potential claims by employees or customers – a major benefit, especially to smaller businesses. Milton Keynes is just one of the major cities and business centres served by Ice Watch.
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Milton Keynes Snow Clearance Requirements
Milton Keynes is a new city, founded in 1967 and built on a grid system designed to allow traffic to flow easily in and around the city centre. A lot of the main grid roads are dual carriageway for a large part of their length, even through the central shopping areas, and many of them intersect at Milton Keynes’ famous roundabouts. The overall layout of the city has been designed with motor transport in mind and there is a high level of car ownership and a good bus service.
The citizens of Milton Keynes are therefore used to being able to get around by car or bus quickly and with minimum hold ups, except in peak hours on some roads, or during peak shopping periods such as Christmas. The dual carriageway system helps to minimise disruption to traffic flow, even in the event of accidents or snow. In the recent snowy conditions (winter 2009/2010) most of the main roads were made passable fairly quickly by clearing one lane. All this means that Milton Keynes residents have high expectations when it comes to getting around, even in freezing conditions.
Milton Keynes is a major destination for out of town shoppers due to the close proximity to the M1 motorway. It is also a major hub for a variety of haulage and distribution firms whose operation would be severely affected in the event of being unable to move vehicles safely in the Milton Keynes area.
So if you are a business or retailer in Milton Keynes you will find that your employees and customers will expect to be able to get to work and to the shops even in icy weather. You therefore need to make sure that your car parks and walkways are accessible and safe for them when they arrive. The alternative is to place them at risk (not an option) or to close, resulting in lost work days and sales.
In terms of typical weather conditions, Milton Keynes usually benefits from being inland which reduces the extremes that more coastal locations can be exposed to. Average minimum temperatures during December, January and February are typically around 4 degrees C which means snow is relatively rare. But the recent winter saw temperatures drop drastically lower than this to -8 or -9 degrees overnight and barely getting above zero during the day. Multiple snowfalls meant that uncleared snow was compacted into ice which was very slow to melt even when the thaw came, and was extremely difficult to clear by hand. In places where snow was successfully cleared soon after it had fallen, thick ice did not get a chance to develop and conditions were greatly improved.
So in terms of snow clearance Milton Keynes has a requirement which is rare, but highly important. However the need for winter gritting to prevent ice is essential during the winter months and finding a reliable gritting company can provide the peace of mind that their staff and the public are protected as best they can be from trips and falls from icy weather.
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