Build a garage easily with a different roof?

Hi,
I have included a garage with a gable roof in my building application. It is an 8x6m garage (finished foundation) + a 6x6m carport in front. Now we have realized that the 6m wide carport in front is a bit too narrow for us. So we want to make the roof wider to 7m. The whole thing would only look okay if we make a flat roof, with the garage part then having a 1m roof overhang on the side.
In the building application, the garage is of course depicted with the gable roof. Otherwise, there is nothing written or anything. Can we just make a flat roof or will that inevitably cause problems?
As far as I remember, I don’t need a building application for a garage up to 50m², right? 6x8 = 48m² - the rest is just a carport...
The problem: there has been a change at the office. The new building office officer is convinced that the old building office officer should never have approved our building. So if we come with changes now, he will definitely reject it. If we just start building, probably no one will notice. It’s approved - just with a different roof…
What would you do?

50 sqm may be built over in SA with a garage or carport!
Do I understand it correctly that now, besides the 48 sqm garage, x meters of overhang are added? On both sides? What does that look like?
Where would you then be? Above 50 sqm...

What I don't understand: are you allowed to use the 50 sqm once for the garage and another 50 sqm for the carport? I think not... it probably applies to the total area, right??? That's why you also applied for a building permit for it?!
But someone else here certainly knows.

Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with the roof shape :cool to build this), as long as the flat roof does not contradict the public-law regulations.

Regards Yvonne

You are allowed to build over 50 sqm in SA with a garage or carport! Do I understand correctly that now, in addition to the 48 sqm garage, x meters of overhang are coming? On both sides? What does that look like? Where would you be then? Over 50 sqm...

*Giggle*, um no. So the carport connects to the front forward. It is basically a 14m long roof and 7m wide.

What I am not clear about: are you allowed to use the 50 sqm once for the garage and another 50 sqm for the carport? I think no... the total area probably counts, right??? That's why you also submitted a building application for it?! But someone else here surely knows.

Well, I don’t know that either. Actually, the building application always applies to the enclosed area, right? That would only be 48 sqm. Such a long roof without "substructure" I don’t have to get approved for, or do I?

Personally, I wouldn’t have problems with the roof shape :cool to build this), provided the flat roof doesn’t contradict public-law regulations.

There are no regulations. Only the building permit. I think the garage was included in the application for completeness regarding the elevations. But in is in. Regards Yvonne[/QUOTE]

Counterexample: if I had a garage where I want to have a new roof with a 3m roof overhang on it, then I don’t need a permit as long as I comply with all the distances and don’t build anything that contradicts the local building regulations, right?

So, roof overhangs are also counted from a certain depth in a single-family house. This will also apply to carports and garages. It’s also about the sealing. Haha, our carport stands on four 40cm x 40cm post foundations, so of course the roof including overhangs counts! So not the four foundations, nor the post distances, but what is covered by the roof. With your 14 x 7 figures, however, you don’t know whether it’s about the planning or your new project. For a 6 x 8 garage + carport, I come up with half a meter overhang on the left and right of the garage?!? Just draw that: what’s in the permit and how you want it now. I assume that everything over 50m2 has to be applied for. 14 x 7 (or also 6) is already a big number, I can’t imagine that garage AND carport of this size (50sqm) are permit-free. Are they planned on the boundary? But this is all layman’s opinion by derivation from Lower Saxony to Saxony! Regulations are, for example, the max size of 50sqm, further probably max 9 meters boundary construction and a max height of 3 meters, here these should only be examples of what regulations are. You can usually find them on Google. You will also have public law regulations in [SA/SN].

Ok, we asked our developer. The rule is apparently as follows: For a building with a roof overhang > 1.50m, the entire roof overhang counts towards the enclosed space. So we are significantly above 50m². So the building application is valid.