Building an end terraced house - Which technical requirements should be considered?

Hello everyone,

first of all, I would like to throw out a friendly "hello" to the group. I just registered because I couldn't find any help for my question on Google.

We will be applying for a terraced end house plot in our community. However, the community has not engaged a developer for the construction, so the houses must be built independently.

There is a point system for the application, in which, for example, the number of children, how long one has lived in the community, etc., are weighted differently.

If you join with other interested parties and apply together, these points are added up and you have a better chance of being allocated a building plot. At the same time, however, you commit to building together, so then also simultaneously through a developer.

We have now tried to find people from the community where we also live and who have the same ideas. An impossible task, since everyone has different ideas about building.

Therefore, we will probably apply alone for an end house. However, I now wonder if there are any laws/principles regarding the independent construction of terraced houses? Suppose we build two full floors with an attic and a shed roof, can the middle house then have a gable roof and only two full floors? Or does the person who builds first set the way for the others to build?

Forgive me if I am asking beginner questions here – but I am one.

Thank you for your help!

There is surely a development plan, isn't there?

It should be correspondingly strict in the case of closed terraced housing and, for example, meticulously specify building lines, dimensions, storey heights, eaves height, ridge height, etc., so that a reasonable terraced house is created.

Which of the properties is it about?

I haven’t read through the development plan yet (if you want a lively discussion here, I would mention the main points and not force everyone to read through the entire development plan. I, and surely many others, simply don’t have the time for that), but can you specifically apply for a single-family terraced house [REH]? As far as I know, you can express wishes, but when it comes to allocation, you might have to be satisfied with a mid-terrace house. That’s the first point. Would that be okay for you as well?

Otherwise, at least with semi-detached houses, I know that one half can be built significantly earlier than the other; how it works with terraced houses, I don’t know, because it might be the case that the two single-family terraced houses [REH] are already built and the middle house would have to be squeezed in between them. No idea if that is a structural challenge.

I'm confused... I just skimmed the development plan but it did say something about open construction style... I didn't find anything about terraced houses there spontaneously.

Exactly. The construction is open.