Not true. My property was de-looped, and they did not dig up the drive. Nowadays they dig a hole in the pavement and a hole at rhe outside wall and “mole” the cable from one excavation to the other, the driveway was not touched.
Not every property is the same!
I have been on jobs where the DNO (contractors) have had to use a mini digger to excavate a channel across the drive, to the cable point of entry. On other jobs, its been a case of two holes and mole through.
Whils’t the DNO will reinstate the drive, t not guaranteed they will beable to make it an exact match depending on the age or material of the existing covering.