Highland Winter Road Conditions Report - Wednesday 27 November 2024
27th November 2024
The information provided is a summary of reports from operational staff and is intended to give a general indication of typical conditions in each area at a point in time. It is not intended to imply that any individual route is entirely snow and ice free and drivers must be aware that conditions can change rapidly and make their own assessment of conditions for travelling.
Maps of the Council's gritting routes by priority and policy are available online at www.highland.gov.uk/gritting.
Highland Road Conditions Report for Wednesday 27 November 2024 are as follows:
Inverness (06:05) Main roads are salty damp, with patchy grey frost on some side roads. Gritters heading out to treat all routes.
Badenoch and Strathspey (06:30) Negative temperatures and ice across the network. Primary and Secondary routes are being treated along with footpaths. Other routes to be treated once resources allow. No known overnight issues.
Nairn (06:30) Negative temperatures and ice across the network. Primary and Secondary routes are being treated along with footpaths. Other routes to be treated once resources allow. No known overnight issues.
East Ross-shire (06:59) A very cold but dry morning. All Priority 1 and 2 roads are being given a light precautionary treatment. All Other roads are generally dry but a risk of ice remains on any untreated surfaces with water issues. These roads will be checked and treated if necessary upon completion of the Priority 1 and 2 roads. Priority 1 and 2 footpaths are also being treated first thing. All Other footpaths will be checked and treated as resources allow.
Lochaber (08:03) Treatment being carried out on Primary and Secondary routes. Negative temperatures. Roads are damp and some have black ice. No problems overnight.
Sutherland (08:13) Negative temperatures this morning with damp roads icy patches on some of the network, All routes are being treated with no overnight issues to report.
Caithness (08:16) Low temperatures with mostly damp roads this morning. Some areas have a covering of white frost with some icy patches in sheltered spots. All routes currently being treated. No known overnight issues to report.
Skye and Raasay (08:52) Treatments running across all Primary, Secondary and problematic routes. Drivers reporting mostly dry roads with some hoar frost. Treatments running across known wet spot routes. Road temperatures remaining cold through Wednesday and overnight. No overnight issues to report.
Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh (09:11) All routes currently being treated. Subzero temperatures but mainly dry. Caution advised on roads with run-off water. No overnight issues reported.
Related Businesses
Related Articles
Households across Scotland have received £4.1 billion in relief since the Council Tax Reduction scheme was introduced in 2013. People on low incomes are eligible for the benefit if they live in Scotland - there is no equivalent in England where most councils require each household to contribute a minimum amount of council tax, irrespective of ability to do so.
The Highland Council is preparing to carry out improvement works in Thurso at Ormlie Road and at The Mall riverside path adjacent to Janet Street. The scope of works on Ormlie Road will include junction improvements between Castlegreen Road and Juniper Drive with new drop kerbs and tactile paving and some surface repairs.
A Highland-wide partnership launched earlier in 2024 to support people on their journey towards, into and within employment is looking forward to a New Year in 2025 full of exciting opportunities designed to help hundreds more people across the Highlands unlock their work potential. Work.
The Highland Council is delighted to share that its Energy Efficient Scotland: Area Based Scheme has won the Outstanding Project Award at the Scottish Green Energy Awards. Described by Scottish Renewables as a "pioneering clean power scheme", this £7 million project demonstrates the incredible impact that can be achieved through combined public and private sector investment.
The ambitious yet focused ‘Highland Investment Plan' is committed to addressing our asset challenges over the next twenty years. By using a place based approach, to ensure a more integrated community offering through the creation of new community facilities.
Applications to the Inverness Winter Payments Scheme, which is fully funded by the Inverness Common Fund, have already been awarded to 1,035 eligible households within the 7 specified Inverness Wards. Leader of Inverness Area, Councillor Ian Brown said: "Since the Scheme was opened to applications for this winter, already £114,885 has been awarded to people who live in the eligible Wards of Aird and Loch Ness, Inverness West, Inverness Central, Inverness Ness-side, Inverness Millburn, Culloden and Ardersier and Inverness South Wards.
The first Highland-wide virtual jobs fair held last month has proved to be a hit with participants and businesses. The week-long virtual event, which was delivered by the Local Employability Partnership for the West - The Highland Council, Skills Development Scotland, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Department for Work and Pensions, Developing the Young Workforce and UHI North West and Hebrides was timed to coincide with Scottish Careers Week 2024.
The Service Centre will close at 5pm on Tuesday 24 December, re-opening on Friday 27 December (opening times 8am to 5pm). It will be closed on 1 and 2 January and open 8am to 5pm from Friday 3 January 2025.
Members have considered an update on the Council's medium term financial plan and the impact of the UK and Scottish Governments’ budgets on the coming year’s funding settlement. The position is currently looking more positive than initially planned for, however more detail needs to be worked through.
In November, The Highland Council launched a public statutory consultation to seek views on the proposed introduction of a Visitor Levy scheme across the Highlands. The Council has announced an extension to this consultation period, which will now give businesses, visitors and communities until 31 March 2025, an additional seven weeks, to take part and have their say.
