A Denbighshire officer has responded to a complaint about the "treacherous" condition of the paths in Llangollen's Riverside Park in last week's freezing weather.
The official complaint was made by one of the area's county councillors, Karen Edwards.
The officer's reply, which she has shown to llanblogger, said: "Please see the extract below from our Adverse weather Plan which also relies on personnel being available and salt stock levels being sufficient as all salt stock needs to be preserved for priority gritting routes.
"Last week we had been gritting the winter maintenance routes virtually non stop 24/7 which left us with very few operatives to undertake any other duties."
The adverse weather plan states: "As a general rule Denbighshire does not routinely treat any footways or cycle tracks during any adverse winter weather.
"It is the policy of the council to begin snow clearance on footways only once the main carriageway precautionary salting routes have been fully opened up to vehicles.
"Even then the clearance will be limited initially to town centre footways that are likely to be hazardous, most notably in St Asaph, Denbigh, Ruthin and Llangollen.
"Snow clearance will be limited to any footways immediately within the town centres and will be reflective of the Priority Walking Routes in the council’s highway maintenance inspection schedule."
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