WEST Dunbartonshire Council is not fulfilling its duties to grit the area’s pavements, a councillor has claimed.

Leven councillor Jim Bollan said concerns from residents across Clydebank and Dumbarton prompted his decision to raise a motion at next week’s full council meeting in Clydebank Town Hall.

Despite the council’s attempts to grit all “priority routes” during the winter months, the Community Party member said it doesn’t make sense to take care of bus routes if pavements are left in such a dangerous condition residents are unable to make it to the bus stop.

He said: “Over the recent cold snap I was inundated with complaints across the whole of West Dunbartonshire about the lack of gritting on pavements.

“The Road Scotland Act gives us a larger responsibility for gritting the pavements and I don’t think we’re complying with that – we need to make sure.”

Cllr Bollan has urged his fellow councillors to back his motion when it’s put before them at 5pm on April 26 in order to resolve the problem for residents.

He added: “What I’ve called for is that we’ve got a programme of gritting priority routes, which is effectively bus routes, I think what we need to do is to apply that rule to our housing estates.

“It doesn’t make any sense to me to have the bus routes clear but people can’t make it through the housing estates to get to the bus.”

The motion states: “Council agrees to a review of the Winter Gritting Programme with a view to improving and increasing the measures currently in place.

“The review needs to recognise that the vast majority of constituents live in streets which under the current policy are not a priority for gritting.

“Council agrees to task the relevant director with bringing a report back to council which takes into account this fact and also attaches the same priority to pavements in housing estates adjoining bus routes.”

A spokeswoman for West Dunbartonshire Council said the authority was unable to comment on the motion before it has appeared before the council and been debated by elected members.

However, the council declined to comment on Cllr Bollan’s accusations over the failure to comply with Road Scotland Act.