What materials to use for shared access road

[gred]

We have a shared private drive and filled some potholes with cold lay tarmac which is reasonably successful and lasts a few seasons. A cheap fix and you only need a rake and preferably rent a whacker plate or just tamp it down.
https://www.diy.com/departments/tarmac-cold-lay-re...

[sherman]

Whin dust laid to a compacted 50mm deep.
Another 40mm deep layer of 10-20mm granite chippings and run the whaker plate over that too.

Hire a petrol whacker plate from your local tool hire shop to do the compaction.

Get all the houses involved and you should have it all sorted over a long weekend.

[worsy]

I'd be inclined to fill the potholes with instant lay macadam.

[DonkeyApple]

Timja said:

We have parking at the rear of our house accessed by a shared access road for about 10 houses. It’s currently not too bad but want to repair recurring pot holes and add more stones so not as muddy!

Not many homes want to spend a fortune on it even though we could make it lovely so top surface likely to be road planings or maybe flint/granite chips.

The ground generally seems fairly compacted but the question is what is going to best get the pot holes sorted before adding a layer of stones?

If stones put in, they just tend to come out with all the cars driving over.

Does anyone work in this area or have experience of what they have done that has lasted and stones don’t move around too much?

We can get free rubble to fill holes but I don’t want to chuck loads of this down if better using something else?

E.g. Do we need Type 1 aggregate to compact into holes?

Some photos to give an idea of current situation.

Some areas need levelling as my TVR scrapes!

My grandfather had an estate drive that always developed pot holes. Each Spring, after the frosts he would work his way down the drive with a trailer full of what is now called hoggin and shovel it into the holes and then whack it down with a lump of concrete that had been poured into an old tin, judging by the ridging around it, about the size of a small bucket and with a 5' bit of scaffold set in it as the handle.

The whole driveway was patched each Spring over a weekend for zero cost. As far as I am aware this was just how tracks and driveways were maintained on properties.

With a shared track like that the first and only real issue is the coming to terms with the fact that you need to maintain it yourself. The others won't. They will say that they will but they, as they always are, will be full of st. So you just need to make that decision as to whether you're happy to just be that bloke who sorts it for himself and doesn't get riled by all the leeches who will benefit or wound up by their inevitable and vacuous platitudes or you'd rather hand over some cash every few years to have it done by an external firm.

For the sake of a bag of hoggin and mixing a bag of concrete in a bucket and sticking a bit of junk in it to form the handle, I'd just go and fill them myself at least once to see how long it lasts and then once I knew that I could decide whether to just stick to that or join everyone in paying a load of money to have a bad job done by a bunch of committee chosen dodgy workers and watching all your money be revealed as wasted but in the comfort of knowing you were all scammed together, even if it was by yourselves.

[Ashtray83]

I feel your pain, we have been in this situation for the last 10 years banging our heads against the wall.
ours has shared access for 8 properties. Half wanted to pay up or get involved in sorting the other half not so much! Finally found a solution in the end… we move next Friday

[InformationSuperHighway]

This thread certainly makes me rethink any houses I'd consider with shared access. I can only imagine the frustration of trying to get folks to contribute that have no intention to, yet they still use the said road.

[blueST]

InformationSuperHighway said:

This thread certainly makes me rethink any houses I'd consider with shared access. I can only imagine the frustration of trying to get folks to contribute that have no intention to, yet they still use the said road.

You get other way too though. Access that’s been a track like OP’s forever with everyone happy to chuck a £100 or so in every couple of years to keep it passable and safe. Then someone new moves in and decides they want it like a billiard table and gets arsey when not everyone’s happy chuck £5k at it.