Cart track to driveway

[seaside]

I've got a plot to build a house on, good news it's halfway up a hill with tremendous views - bad news, it's halfway up a hill.

Access at the moment is a 1/2 mile unpaved cart track, average gradient around 1 in 9 and well drained.

Have you any idea of budget costs I should use for making it into a hardcore track ?

[bobhughes]

! in 9 would be well drained wouldn't it.

Try to go for summat better than hardcore - I will be a big heap at the bottom in a couple of years. Concrete would be best. Try for some quotes as there are too many variables. Although hardcore may be best for the builders lorries then finish it after.

[lutonlagerlout]

hoggin perhaps?? i know a groundworker who swears by proper hoggin,with half a mile anything else is gonna be big bucks
even crushed concrete will cost a lot for this amount of drive
i expect you are talking 3000m2,which even in concrete will cost you in excess of £200,000 and that is a lot of money
better to buy a decent 4 wheel drive and leave the cart track i reckon
cheers tony

[bobhughes]

Single track 2 metres wide would be about 1,600 squ metres. Still a lot but not quite so bad.

[lutonlagerlout]

what about if 2 vehicles meet bob???
1/4 mile is a long way to reverse up or down a 1:9 gradient
anyway block paving would cost shedloads
cheers tony

[Dave_L]

What sort of condition is the cart-track in at the moment?