Checklists · Site logistics
Site Access & Logistics Checklists
Most of the friction in a project is logistical rather than technical: where materials arrive, where waste goes, what gets protected, and who tells the neighbours. These checklists cover the parts an owner can genuinely organise and agree in advance.
Permits, licences and permissions for anything on a road, pavement or shared area are confirmed with the local authority and the relevant party. Nothing here states what applies to your property.
31 checklists in this category
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Each checklist prepares one specific conversation or decision point. None of them determines compliance, suitability or cost.
- Access, deliveries and how things reach the property
- Waste, protection and keeping the rest of the home usable
- Neighbour and shared-access conversations
- The condition record made before work begins
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Each checklist sits at the earliest point in a project where it becomes useful. Every checklist in this category appears in exactly one stage below.
Early planning
Gathering what you already know and shaping the project before drawings begin.
Site Access Route Record →A way to record the route from the public road to where work will happen, including the pinch points, surfaces and shared stretches others need to know about.Site Parking Questions →How your street actually works, how many vehicles the work brings to it, and which of the parking questions can only ever be answered by the local authority.Site Water and Power →What the work will draw water and electricity from, where the supplies and isolation points actually are, and which arrangements to settle before anyone starts.Tree Protection Questions →Recording what grows on and around the site, which trees need their status confirmed locally, and what to ask before roots, canopy or planting are affected.Shared Access Questions →Where the way in and out is not wholly yours: the documents to gather, the physical limits to record, and the agreements to reach before anything is arranged.Narrow Access Questions →For properties reached by a side passage, tight gate or shared alley: what actually fits, what has to be carried, and what restricted access changes about the work.Upper Floor Access Questions →For work above ground level: what the stair, lift and landing route allows, what a building manager expects, and how shared parts are protected and put back.Weather Exposure Planning →Planning for the period a property stands open to the weather: temporary covering, where water would go, ground conditions, wind, and how the household copes.Spoil and Site Levels →Spoil is the largest physical thing most projects produce and almost nothing names it. This prepares the questions about how much, where it stands and where it goes.Neighbouring Land Access Request →Asking a neighbour for temporary use of their land is a conversation with a private individual. This prepares what you need, what you offer and what you do if they refuse.New Connection Applications →Connection applications routinely become the critical path of a whole project. This gathers what each provider asks for, the route across three kinds of land, and who reinstates.
Brief & professionals
Writing the brief and preparing the conversations with qualified professionals.
Scaffolding Conversation →What to record before discussing temporary external access: where a structure would stand, what it touches, whose land it crosses and how the household lives beside it.Working Hours Conversation →Preparing the conversation about when work happens at your property, what the stated times quietly leave out, and which restrictions must be confirmed locally.Dust and Noise Control →How dust and noise actually travel through an occupied property, what to ask about controlling them at source, and where the questions belong with a qualified professional.Protecting Existing Finishes →Working out which existing surfaces and fittings are genuinely at risk during the work, what protection to agree in advance, and how damage is recorded and raised.Material Storage On Site →Where materials land, where they live and what each place gives up in return, with the storage questions worth settling before the first delivery arrives.Site Welfare Questions →What a working team needs by way of a toilet, washing and somewhere to take a break, what your household is willing to share, and who arranges the rest.Condition Record Before Works →What to write down about a property before anyone starts: existing damage, meter readings, shared structures, planting, and how the record is issued and acknowledged.Temporary Roof and Enclosure →Owners meet a full temporary roof without warning during roof replacement or a loft conversion. This gathers the questions about duration, living underneath it and who maintains it.
Before & during the work
Site logistics, coordination and the questions that arise once work is under way.
Delivery and Unloading →Materials arrive long before anyone is ready for them. This covers where a vehicle can stand, who takes the load off, what is checked and where it waits.Skip and Waste Removal →Planning how material physically leaves a property: which removal arrangement suits the access, what a collection vehicle needs, and where a container could stand.Neighbour Notification →Who hears about work at your property, what a first note should say and avoid saying, who they contact once it starts, and how all of it is recorded.Site Security Conversation →Preparing to discuss how a property is kept secure while work happens: what is on site, how an open building is closed up, who holds access and what neighbours are told.Utility Isolation Questions →Questions to prepare before services are interrupted for work: where each supply is controlled, what the household loses, who is allowed to do what, and how supplies come back.Site Photography Record →Planning a photographic record of a property around building work: what to capture, when it has to happen, how images stay usable, and where the record is kept.Site Key and Access Handover →Handing over access to a property for building work: which entry points are involved, who holds keys and codes, how it is recorded, and how the arrangement ends.Crane and Lift Day →A lift is a single high-consequence day that the weather can cancel. This covers what an owner records, clears, tells the neighbours and checks afterwards.Household and Pets During Works →An active working area at home changes daily life for everyone in the house. This is about the arrangements a household agrees and writes down before that happens.Plant and Ground Protection →Buried things under a working route get crushed silently and found months later. This covers what lies beneath the route and what protection is agreed before anything heavy arrives.Site Reinstatement at Completion →Reinstatement is where the pre-works condition record finally earns its keep. This is about agreeing in advance what the outside looks like when everyone leaves.Works Pause and Shutdown →A pause is a distinct state with its own risks. This covers how a part-finished building is left, what is drained or heated, who holds keys and who is responsible.
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Related Build Design Hub guides
Explanatory guidance behind the decisions these checklists prepare you for.
Project management guides →Explanatory guides on how projects are usually coordinated.Site, foundation & roof →General background on site work and what it involves.Permits, inspections & safety →General educational background — requirements are confirmed locally.All checklist categories →Back to the full Project Planning Checklists library.