Resin driveways in Martlesham Heath
Martlesham Heath is an unusual place to own a driveway. The village was planned from scratch in the mid-1970s on the site of the former RAF Martlesham Heath airfield, which had opened in 1917 as an experimental testing station, and it was laid out as a cluster of hamlets around greens rather than as conventional estate roads. Around two thousand seven hundred people live there now. Housing built to one plan in one era tends to age in step, and Martlesham Heath's original drives, many now approaching fifty years old, are doing exactly that.
What the planned layout means for surfacing
- Short drives, shared aspects. The hamlet clusters put houses close around greens and closes, so a drive is part of a shared street scene. A trowelled resin surface in a muted blend keeps the tidy, deliberate look the village was designed around.
- 1970s concrete reaching end of life. Original concrete drives from the first build phases show their age as crazing, spalled edges and worn aggregate. Where the slab is still sound it can serve as the base for an overlay, covered on the renovation page.
- Heathland ground underneath. The clue is in the name. The village stands on the free-draining sandy heath that made the site suitable for an airfield in the first place, and that same ground makes a full permeable resin build simple: water soaks straight through into the sand below, keeping front drives inside the permitted development rules.
A working village, not a dormitory
With Adastral Park, the telecommunications research campus, on its doorstep, Martlesham Heath has steady daytime traffic and plenty of households running two or more cars. Widening a single drive into a double, done permeably on this ground, usually needs no planning application and removes the daily verge-parking shuffle.
Martlesham village and the surrounding roads
Old Martlesham, down towards the Deben side, is a different proposition from the Heath: an older settlement with a mix of cottage frontages and later infill, where thresholds, boundaries and levels vary house by house. The same vetted specialist covers both, and the first visit establishes which build suits your plot rather than assuming the village pattern.
Getting a quote in Martlesham Heath
Call {{TRACKING_NUMBER}} or use the quote form. This site is an introduction service: your enquiry goes to one vetted independent resin specialist covering Ipswich and the Martlesham area, who quotes you directly after a visit. Neighbouring Kesgrave is covered by the same specialist.