Highways officers are set to review Mole Valley's winter maintenance programme.

The news comes after hundreds backed the Advertiser campaign – Stop the Slip, Give us Grit – calling for the unpopular scheme to be reviewed.

Fury erupted after several roads in the district were made Priority 2 during the changes, which means they would only be gritted in periods of "persistent frost".

Since the launch of our campaign, the district's six county councillors met with officers from Surrey County Council on Friday February 12 to discuss the controversial changes.

Tim Hall, the county councillor for Leatherhead and Fetcham East, said that the changes last year did not take account of the district's geography.

"Bus routes and school routes are the most important and we needed to get them straightened out," he said.

Roads which he suggested the county council put up to Priority 1 include Bell Lane and The Street in Fetcham, Little Bookham Street and Barnett Wood Lane in Ashtead.

County councillor Stephen Cooksey, who represents Dorking and the Holmwoods, says that there were three roads in the area which he wanted to make Priority 1.

"There are three roads which particularly concern me which were moved from Priority 1 gritting to Priority 2," he said.

"One is St Paul's Road West, which is the route to Dorking hospital.

"The second is Chart Lane South, which needs to be gritted as it is the only way that people in Chart Downs can get out.

"The third is Chart Lane North, which is a main route for the vehicles which service the High Street."

Around the district hundreds have backed the Advertiser's campaign calling for this review.

Paol Bhanot, the owner of Chart Down News, says most of the residents of the estate have signed up to the campaign because the estate was virtually stranded in last month's blizzards. He said: "It does concern me because we were cut off from the town for three to four days because people couldn't get up the hill in Chart Lane South.

"They should change the gritting."

Hundreds of residents in Little Bookham Street, which was also badly affected by snow, have added their names to the Advertiser's petition.

Kishor Dhokia, who runs Weale's Stores in the street, said: "I very much hope they change it.

"It is a main, busy road with the train station down the road, it is a bus route and there is access to an industrial estate.

"When we had the snow buses weren't coming down the road for a whole week and elderly people couldn't get anywhere."

Potential changes will be discussed at next Wednesday's local committee meeting.

A spokeswoman for the county council said: "Any requested changes which result in an increase in resource will be required to be submitted to the cabinet."