Norfolk does seem particularly bad for it. I think they have a surplus of the chippings and spread them where people like to cyclehttps://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/kick-in-the-asphalt-1
Is North Somerset still has bad as it was for spreading the chipping so thin that you can see the ridges in the thinly-sprayed tar, or has it joined Norfolk and others in leaving an inch thickness of skid fodder?
Previous problems with the tarmac melting in the heat?Even worse is what they've done in Windsor Great Park. I initially thought it was surface break up when I was up the Monday. The roads have a layer of fine, almost sand like gravel on them. It's being spread by a grit spreader on the back of a tractor, and makes the roads very slippery indeed, so much care going round corners.
I have no idea why they are doing it.