Most UK airports have a “back to black” policy , they don’t have and can’t justify the cost of the equipment to maintain this standard of runway surface.
Go to Scandinavia and you will find snow covered runways with braking action enhanced with hot sand, of course the braking action is degraded but it will not stop you landing and taking off as long as you can meet the performance requirements of your aircraft.
I’m afraid the UK is Elf & Saftey gone mad and applied by people who simply don’t understand winter operations, if Norway applied UK practice there would be no flying from November to March from any airport north of Trondheim.