22 May 2012Refuse collections
Road and pavement gritting and clearing
School closures, household waste recycling centre and other KCC services
Advice on clearing snow
Driving in extreme weather
The latest weather and what's happening on the roads
Emergencies
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In the event of snow or freezing weather, we will collect refuse from households where it's safe to do so.
Refuse vehicles weigh up to 26 tonnes and when visiting a road, we consider the risk of injury to the public and staff and damage to property, as well as the likelihood of becoming stuck, causing further disruption. In practice this means collections could be restricted to main roads, bus routes and other pre-salted roads.
If your refuse has not been collected by the end of today, please take your bags back in and put them out again next Monday, when we will collect them then.
Road and pavement gritting and clearing
Kent County Council is responsible for keeping roads and pavements safe during bad weather. For more information about road and pavement salting and snow clearance please visit the Kent County Council website.
Alternatively contact Kent County Council on 08458 247 800 or e-mail kent.highwayservices@kent.gov.uk.
Motorways and major trunk roads, including the A21, M20, M25 and M26, are managed by the Highways Agency and not Kent County Council.
At the request of KCC, we have deployed most of our street cleansing staff to clear snow in London Road and the High Street in Sevenoaks.
Additionally Sevenoaks District Council's car parks were ploughed and gritted yesterday and gritted again this morning by our winter standby crew.
School closures, household waste recycling centre and other KCC services
For details of any school closures, and how other KCC services could be affected by severe weather visit www.kent.gov.uk/winter.
For advice on clearing snow, including snow from outside your home, visit the snow clearance page on the Kent County Council website.
Further advice on snow clearing and dealing with extreme weather can be found on the DirectGov website.
Driving in the extreme weather conditions
For more information visit the Kent Police website.
See also the DirectGov website with details of driving in extreme weather conditions and the Highways Agency pages giving advice on driving in snow and icy conditions.
The latest weather and what's happening on the roads
This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office
For the latest weather updates visit the Met Office website and for flood warnings, visit the Environment Agency website. See also the flood advice pages on this website.
To find out what is happening on the roads, visit the Highways Agency's current traffic information page.
