New Road for a New House

[henderson]

I have planning permission to build a house in the middle of one of our fields.

I was hoping to get an indication of the cost to build a 400 metre road to the site.

We have enough land gatherings and old ruins to make the base for the road so will just be finishing it with type 1 (so this is the only material we will need hopefully).

Does anyone have any ideas what the usual cost per m2 of a new road is?

 

[renewablejohn]

We have 400 mtr of road up a hillside to do have had 3 quotes for mot then tarmac on top all in the range 30 to 35k. Needless to say its not been done as we dont own the road only have a ROW over it.

 

[Doing it for the kids]

Tarmac is a killer, had a number of prices recently for Tarmacing bits and bobs, I should think 15 -20 k for 60mm deep in 20 mm then maybe 50mm in 10mm

You either write out the big cheque now or go type 1, get a good camber on and accept every few hears you will need to give it a little TLC

 

[Zebbedee]

13t diggger would be 10 hrs approx to dig out the road then another 15 hrs to dig out and load infill into dumpers and another 8 hours to level off in track maybe more depending on material. Roller for 5hrs then lay scalpings maybe another 10 hrs with digger and 8 hrs rolling maybe longer so roughly a week with digger for round figures £1500 plus roller £200 then scalpings at £15 ton maybe around 300 ton needed if you put a good layer on to make up for poorer material underneath -£6200

 

[BBC]

Did 500m in spring at £16/m, laid 70mm deep and 3.5m wide strip laid using a paver. We did all the prep work, pot hole filling, levelling, widening where necessary, rolling and putting in concrete kerbs in gateways. Total cost including machinery hire, kerbs, etc £36,000 incl vat. Money very well spent.

 

[IH 684]

Whilst we are on this subject has anyone come up with any novel ways of making tarmac plainings go hard again? We now have a solid and level road made up over the years of dolomite crushed concrete etc. Cosmetic wise it looks a bit naff.

 

[Courier]

Whilst we are on this subject has anyone come up with any novel ways of making tarmac plainings go hard again?

Time ?

 

[Courier]

Unless you are on ultra free draining land the first stage of putting that new road in should be 2 x 6" land drain each1 metre beyond the width of the road and filled to the top with clean gravel - IMHO.

A well graded gravel road with geotextile beneath would last indefinitely with little other than occasional maintenance.

 

[Still Farming]

Ground contamination -waste product - can of worms ???