Asphalt or chip seal. We had asphalt and now have chip. It is noisy, spreads across grass verges we mow with a mulching mower, goes on footpaths, up driveways, into shoe soles and into the house, into the garage on tyres, gets in brake pads, is nasty to fall on and clean out of wounds

Loose chips are great to do skids on and go down stormwater grates that now need cleaning out. Chips are not resilient or long lasting.

We have noise from vehicles at 2-3am, with seven day delivery of papers and magazines and early morning commuters. Electric vehicles and hybrids are very quiet, but tyre noise is so loud.

Our very short street of around 70 metres has 16 properties using it, mainly off driveways, but with two major building projects currently, the truck, courier, trade and residential vehicles are endless from Monday to Friday. Two properties also have work from home businesses.

I do not believe this street should have been chipped. Perhaps the chips have not bound properly to the road surface as they should have. The seal was fine as it was. A vacuum of loose chips may help, but we are waiting for that to happen.

Cheap is not always better or cost effective in the long term.

Helen Meiklejohn, Waihi Beach.