Street Gritting and the New Brent Contract

Street gritting tends to get forgotten most of the year, but reappears as soon as it snows.  The new contract plans that the contractor will provide a new salt barn in Brent, as well as more equipment to move the salt around.  The inclusion of parks staff under one contract means that there will be more people to actually do the gritting than at present.  I assume that the contractor will continue to use the excellent weather forecasting service, which I am told already saves significant sums in unecessary salt usage. 

I have never heard this officially, but I assume lower salt usage is also helpful in terms of biodiversity, as a lower amount of dissolved salt eventually drains off into the ground.