Driveway from a road into a field

kitchendresser

I'm looking at digging a driveway from a road into a field that used to be a granite quarry. The field is 4 meters above the level of the road. I want to find out if the granite is rubble, the size of any boulders and whether there is solid rock. 

Can I get a scan done that will reveal these details? How much would it cost per square meter?

Calahonda52

How much of a driveway, the survey will have a fairly large fixed cost to it so might be cheaper to hire a digger for a few hours.
Have you planning for the road, including line of sight calculations

kitchendresser

The driveway would be three meters wide and sixty meters long. The sight lines are OK. I haven't submitted the planning.
What kind of fixed cost would be involved?

Calahonda52

Google Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and call a few of them

landcrzr

Just hire a digger and driver and dig a few trial holes along the route.

Turbohymac

Looks like track excavator 20 ton and rockbreaker.. as a jcb won't have much power if she hits rock.. and 4 meters is a lot ..definitely job for tracked machine .pointless spending money on surveys best spent moving the material

BryanF

kitchendresser wrote: »

The driveway would be three meters wide and sixty meters long. The sight lines are OK. I haven't submitted the planning.
What kind of fixed cost would be involved?

Ring the local planning department, ask for email of the local planner, send in a screen shot of a google map with the location of the entrance and an explanation of what the entrance is for, you may want to include your landholdings in the area.