I might be stuck between a rock and a hard place here, but would be keen to hear other's thoughts and/or experiences in similar situations. This might be a bit long, so sorry about that.

Had the scoping visit from Chorus on Tuesday - that was slightly annoying in itself, as it was booked in for 'PM', so I took the afternoon off work, and waited...and waited...until 5pm, still nothing. I had to pop out for half an hour, my wife was home by then though, so gave her instructions to give me a call if they showed up. 5:25 I get a call, they have just come. Sweet I say - tell them I will be home in less than 10 mins, and I'd really appreciate it if they could hang around until I get back. 

Get back about 5:32, and I see a Chorus van heading down our road as I'm heading up, get home and sure enough they've left. Apparently they can't do the install for a few more weeks as they are waiting on council consent for something - unsure what exactly. The chap left a cell number, so I give him a call and ask what the story is, and if they are coming back to complete the scope - he says the scope is done, "we'll run it up the fence and across the lawn, job done". I tell him I am definitely not happy with having the Fibre along the fence, and I would have really liked to have a chat with him about what other options there may be, and maybe he could have waited just another couple of mins as I was waiting all afternoon? Apparently not.  

So no worries - I understand that PM does mean PM, and there is no particular time, and I should have stayed at home. My fault. 

I was really hopeful that there was actually conduit running under the driveway, as the driveway I believe was done in the 80s, much newer than the rest of the house. Our copper ETP looks like this. 

Looking at that lovely 45 degree bend there, I was pretty hopeful that maybe it had been done nicely when the driveway was done. I started clearing around where the conduit ran  into the ground, and then saw that it want into some black pipe. Not looking so good any more...

I popped around the other side of the wall from where the conduit ran into the ground and had a bit of a dig, and sure enough, there is just enough conduit/pipe to get under the wall, then it goes right into the ground. Bugger. 

I even went to the roadside and had a cheeky dig to make totally sure there is no conduit at that end either, and nope. I should say this was all just sand, as it had been dug up when the Fibre conduits were laid recently. You can see the black microduct heading up on the angle, right next to what I assume is mine and the neighbour's copper. 

So no conduit - Chorus want to run the Fibre along the fence, then across the lawn to the house, which I can understand, as options are obviously limited here. 

The arrow in this image indicates where the copper comes out from under the driveway currently - the ETP is behind that wall.

And this image is looking back the other direction.

Do I have any other possible options other than along the fence for this install? Is requesting micro trenching through the ashphalt an option? Or failing that, would it be acceptable to run some thick wall irrigation pipe along the base of the fence, then bury that through the lawn and run it to the location of the ETP? Or would that not be an 'acceptable conduit'.

Keen to hear anyone's thoughts - maybe I've just got to live with it tacked to the fence.