[Onramp]

I see - I thought that might be the case. Looks like my options then are either for my neighbour to agree to a trench passing through their property in front of their drive, or to rent another house that already has a cabled footpath directly touching its boundary.

Is it normally only that neighbour (or their landlord) that would have to agree, or would it be everyone who owns a piece of the shared driveway, even though their own section of that driveway wouldn't be excavated? (i.e. they have a right to enter / exit the area themselves and might object to the temporary disruption)

Finally, is this something that would have to have been confirmed (wayleave or easement between VM and my neighbour) ahead of such time as the fibre is laid down in the rest of the street, in order to be able to go ahead with the install at my house later on?

Reason I ask: From what I've read before, the install techs won't dig a trench through via hard driveway (wayleave or not) from a floor box that's out on the pavement edge - but that supposedly, if requested ahead of time while the street is in the planning stage, maybe the contractors could place the floor box at the edge of the grass area on my own driveway at that point, assuming the right agreements are also signed by the neighbours?

Sorry if this is a bit confusing, I'm probably not using the right terminology.

weesteev you have been very helpful to me recently with my situation, I appreciate that. It would be somewhat ironic if after all this, I'm out of luck due to a 3m strip being off-limits. I'll talk to my neighbours. They're nice people, I don't want to upset them by disrupting their driveway ideally, so if they say no, I'll probably move house to one with a favourable setup.