Tarmac driveways in Corby
Tarmac driveways and long rural entrances in and around Corby, with sett and block borders.
A tarmac driveway in Corby typically costs £90–£130 per m² all in. Most Corby drives we price are around 30–50m², which works out at roughly £2,750–£6,500. A permeable drive, or one that drains to your own lawn or border, needs no planning permission; more than 5m² of impermeable surface draining to the road does. A new or wider entrance needs a dropped kerb from North Northamptonshire Council: £333 for the licence and inspection, with the crossing built by an approved contractor, and we can build it for you.
- Typical cost here
- £2,750–£6,500 for 30–50m²
- Planning
- Not needed if it drains to your own ground
- Dropped kerb
- North Northamptonshire Council: £333 for the licence and inspection
- Ground
- Ironstone, with clay and restored ground
Our 2026 guide prices, all in. Your fixed price comes in writing after the site visit. Council fees checked October 2026.
What tarmac driveways in Corby usually involve
A tarmac (asphalt) driveway is machine or hand laid hot over a compacted sub-base, usually as a binder course with a finer surface course on top. It is the hardest-wearing option for long drives, farm entrances and heavy vehicles.
Corby grew as a steel town: a New Town designated in 1950, with estates such as Kingswood, Lodge Park, Beanfield and Danesholme built for steelworkers, around the older villages of Corby Village, Great Oakley and Weldon. Priors Hall Park in the north east is planned for more than 5,000 homes, and many of its gardens are handed over as bare, compacted plots.
We cover Corby (NN17 and NN18) and the villages around it, including Weldon, Great Oakley, Corby Village, Gretton, Cottingham, Middleton, Rockingham, Stanion and East Carlton.
Ground, drainage and conservation in Corby
Corby sits on the Northampton Sand ironstone that fed the steelworks, and large areas around the town were opencast quarried and restored. Ground can change from natural ironstone to clay or fill within a garden, so we dig before we design the base and drainage.
Corby has nine conservation areas, including the Old Village, Cottingham and Middleton, Gretton, Rockingham, Stanion, Great Oakley and Weldon. Its only Article 4 direction (Kingswood) controls houses in multiple occupation and does not affect driveways, porches or extensions.
The Willow Brook runs through Corby and Weldon, with an Environment Agency flood storage reservoir at Weldon, so properties near the brook need drainage planned with care. You can check any address on the Environment Agency flood map.
Sources: North Northamptonshire conservation areas · Priors Hall Park.
Permissions and fees in Corby
- Check the surface ruleA permeable drive, or one that drains to your own lawn or border, needs no planning permission; more than 5m² of impermeable surface draining to the road does. Planning Portal guidance
- Conservation areaIf you are in the Corby conservation area, use the surfaces and boundary treatments it suits. North Northamptonshire: conservation areas
- Dropped kerbA new or wider entrance needs a dropped kerb from North Northamptonshire Council: £333 for the licence and inspection, with the crossing built by an approved contractor, and we can build it for you. The full Corby dropped kerb process
- Design and priceWe design the drive to meet all of this, give you one fixed written price and build it.
Council fees and rules checked October 2026. Planning fees are the national fees from 1 April 2026.
What you get
- Stone mastic asphalt surface course as our standard build
- Proper sub-base under it, so it does not rut or crack
- Granite sett or block borders that lift the whole frontage
- Long drives and farm entrances machine laid
The specification
- Old surface out and the ground checked
- 150mm compacted MOT Type 1 sub-base
- Binder course laid hot and rolled
- SMA (stone mastic asphalt) surface course
- Sett, block or kerb edging restrained in concrete
- Five year workmanship guarantee in writing
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