Find out about changes to our services and Christmas opening times on our Festive information page. To find out when your bin will be collected over the festive period, visit Changes to County Durham bin collections at Christmas.

Due to maintenance, the following systems will be unavailable from 11.45am on Tuesday 24 December until 8.00am on Thursday 2 January: our online Council Tax, business rates and housing benefit services, and our welfare assistance form. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Winter gritting routes

Find information about our winter roads service including the roads in County Durham which are identified as gritting routes.

Our road gritting service

Pre-salting (gritting) is the laying of rock salt before frosty conditions. It stops ice forming on the road surface. Our road network is split into priority 1 and priority 2 routes.

Priority 1 routes: These routes typically include all of the A roads and the majority of the B roads, most bus routes and other busy areas.
Priority 2 routes: In times of prolonged severe weather we will also treat some minor and C roads, as resources become available.

See our treated roads (gritting routes) on a map

See which roads are gritted by postcode or area, in normal conditions (priority 1 routes) and in extreme weather or longer periods of predicted frost (priority 2 routes).

The A1, A19 and A66 roads are managed by Highways England.