Build a semi-detached house with the same profile...

I have a question

In the textual provisions of a development plan it states, among other things:

Semi-detached houses and groups of houses are each to be uniform in profile, i.e. with a consistent front and rear building line, the same eaves and ridge height, the same roof overhang, the same roof pitch as well as uniformity in material and color.

The question I have is how "uniform in profile" is defined here with regard to the following things:

a) Width of the semi-detached house (so is it allowed for one to be wider than the other?)
b) Position of windows and doors on the respective aforementioned building lines

Does everything have to be exactly mirrored?

Good evening,

The question I ask myself is how "profilgleich" is defined here with regard to the following things:

a) Width of the semi-detached house (so is it allowed for one to be wider than the other?)
b) Location of windows and doors on the respective mentioned building facades

Does everything have to be mirror-image identical?

If the BF allows it, you are also allowed to build wider. Where your windows and doors are planned is certainly completely irrelevant to the creator of the development plan even in many years.

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The question I ask myself is how "profilgleich" is defined here with regard to the following things: a) Width of the semi-detached house (so is one allowed to be wider than the other?) b) Location of windows and doors on the respective mentioned building lines Does everything have to be mirror-inverted identical?

a) We did it that way with our semi-detached house – the building authority does not care. b) We also have differences – e.g., floor-to-ceiling windows versus normal ones and dormer versus photovoltaic system. What is important: If there are no specifications for minimum sizes, your building neighbor could also build significantly smaller (height and so on) and if they submit the building permit application BEFORE you, due to the "profilgleich" requirement you are only allowed to build as small. Therefore, it is best to contact your neighbor right away and agree on a height together.

Hello,

What is important: If there are no regulations regarding minimum sizes, your building neighbor could also build significantly smaller (height and so on) and if he submits the building application BEFORE you, you are only allowed to build as small due to the profile equality. Therefore, it is best to contact the neighbor right away and jointly agree on a height.

Good advice!

Nowadays, however, it works differently - if both semi-detached partners are known at the same time. The building authority requires both building partners to agree before submitting the building application; before that, they do not handle the process at all. It looks different, of course, if the neighboring half is not or only to be built significantly later. Then the partner who builds later is in the situation you described.

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Nowadays, however, it works differently - if both DH partners are known at the same time. The building authority requires the two construction partners to reach an agreement before submitting the building application; before that, they don’t even process the case.

Learned something new again. Three years ago, we were always told that "first applied" was a nightmare scenario.

Three years ago, the "first applied" was always presented to us as a horror scenario.

It was indeed quite like that; at least here with us in NRW.

The way it is handled today, I find it much more relaxed for all parties involved. It "forces" the building partners to come together and already early on practice the concept of "neighborly coexistence"

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