Can demolition equipment use the driveway you want to keep?

Identify the entrance, turns, stopping point and loading position. Include visible drains, covers, edges, slopes and nearby features. A vehicle may fit through the entrance but need a different space to turn or load. Photographs should show the route rather than only the demolition area.

Tell the contractor about known buried services, tanks, voids or previous repairs along the path. Do not assume that a paved surface provides uniform support. Where support is uncertain, the proposed use needs the appropriate assessment before equipment is committed to that route.

Protection may reduce scraping or soiling, but it is not a structural assessment of the driveway or what lies beneath it. The contractor should select the access and handling arrangement for the actual site. This guide does not prescribe mat thickness, vehicle weights or a universal safe load.

Record visible pre-existing conditions using the photo-record guide. Agree where protection begins and ends and how it will be removed. Avoid turning a protection plan into a promise that an unknown surface cannot be affected.

If the preferred route is unsuitable, discuss different staging, smaller handling steps or another authorised loading location. A longer carry can be a real scope change. The tight-access guide considers possible routes; this review checks the retained surface on a route already identified.

Do not remove a fence, tree or neighbouring feature to make access work without the relevant owner's direction and required review. Put the accepted route and its limits into the scope so the crew, hauler and property owner work from the same plan.

For concrete removal, send the access details and identify the driveway or paving that must remain.