I dread houses in our road going up for sale. Because it is in a desirable location, people buy three bedroomed houses and proceed to turn them into five bedroomed, three bathroom houses which takes anything from a year to 18 months. In the last five years there have been five such "renovations" and the parking, dust, noise and disruption have been a nightmare. I also wonder why they don't just buy something to suit in the first place if they have so much money to throw at a "project"!
To be fair, our immediate neighbours always come and tell us when they are having work done and apologise in advance for any disruption we may suffer. Their builders have always been very good about not parking across our driveway, clearing and sweeping up before they go and so on. We have done likewise. We are moving our fences on the far side of our property so that our garage will be inside our boundary and have included our neighbours in all the discussions we have had with our builder in order to keep them in the loop and give them an opportunity to raise any concerns. To me it's a simple matter of politeness and respect.