Inverclyde Liberal Democrats
About us News and Views Get Involved		Road Gritting Issues Cllr Tom Fyfe press release The recent cold weather has understandably resulted in a spate of complaints about gritting of roads and pavements mostly from people staying on unadopted roads. There are a lot of roads in the Kilmacolm area which have not been adopted by the Council for example, Barr’s Brae, Whitelea Road / Broomknowe Road junction, and Balrossie Drive. Balrossie Drive is particularly frustrating because this development was undertaken by Strathclyde Regional Council to provide accommodation for staff working in the Approved School and that Council, which was responsible for all roads at that time, did not adopt it! The condition of the Whitelea / Broomknowe  junction is appalling being scattered with bomb crater sized holes. The residents there are reluctant to pay to bring this road up to adoptable standard because they fear the road would become a rat run for parents driving their children to and from St. Columba’s School. The presence of street lighting on many unadopted roads is confusing. The public lighting on these roads would have been adopted under the Burgh Police Act of 1892 which permitted public lighting to be adopted separately from public roads. The most interesting example of this is the presence of a couple of lamp standards lighting the “right of way” through a private garden to the Moss from Gowkhouse Road. This legislation was repealed when the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984 was introduced requiring both lighting and road infrastructure to be adopted as a single entity. The Council will adopt roads which have been brought up to the required standard by the owners. The Roads Department will help with this, providing quotes and organising the necessary work if asked to do so. In the meantime unadopted roads are not included in the Council’s list of areas scheduled for priority treatment in terms of gritting and snow clearing.  I was told “It is possible that when snow clearing and gritting of all the public roads within Inverclyde have been addressed then, and subject to available resources, it may be possible to attend to privately owned roads.”  Don’t hold your breath!   .
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