Here is a clearer image.
My concern is that the neighbours to the right of me would be able to prevent the termination box from being placed outside my grass, despite that being the edge of my own area.
My understanding is that if the driveway is indeed a private shared right of way, I might have to get an underground services easement signed by all the surrounding property owners who have a right to use that area of tarmac. If that is indeed the case, I can imagine that VM would not themselves do that during the street works, so therefore they would place the termination box at the footpath boundary since that is probably "as close to the property as possible".
It would then be for me to get everyone to agree for me to excavate and reinstate the shared driveway between my garden and the termination box out on the path. I can't see my neighbours on the right (in the diagram) allowing this since the lady there has to get her car in and out of her own driveway regularly to take her kids to school.
My hope is that there is not a private shared driveway and that the area is actually public highway...