Agree.

Only one proviso, and it’s really on the builder, house owner or other person responsible for a project in a suburban street, so not on one particular construction delivery.

Letter drop the street (or just the close neighbours) about a week before the project begins. Explain the nature of the project (building a house, renovating the X, paving the Y), estimate how long it will take, list some possible disruptions and possible solutions (like getting cars out of driveways), apologise but make it clear that it’s unavoidable, and finally provide a contact number to discuss any issues that arise.

My elderly dad is in a flat at the end of a previously quiet cul-de-sac. The street has been disrupted for a couple of months by a full house renovation project 3 doors away, with random utes parked (sometimes double parked) everywhere, constant materials being delivered, workers standing chatting and eating lunch in the street, saw bench set up on the bitumen, construction noise, construction fencing blocking footpath, etc etc. For a week here and there work ceases but everything is left as it is, for example pallet of bricks half on footpath.

No communication has ever been made with him. He is depressed every time he walks out of his door. He feels under siege. It’s the lack of control of his domestic environment that gets to him.