Building notification who has experience with it

So we are talking about a fully qualified independent architect, not about a draftsman's assistant of the construction contractor?

.. so which side does the architect belong to? And how is that connected with

The delay of another 2 months is a catastrophic situation for us as well. We request a meeting with the construction company and want to insist that they cover the costs for the building permit notification, should we decide on that finally.

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Besides being a smart aleck (sorry for that) I can still contribute a little bit of information. We have just built recently. New development area with a development plan in NRW. We (that is, we and the architect) are now jointly liable in the simplified procedure to ensure that our house is exactly as it is allowed to be according to the development plan. This concerns many things like eaves height, ridge height, building window, DN, color of the roof covering, etc. We co-signed the application of the (independent) architect, personally submitted all the stuff to the building authority of the municipality, and 3 or 4 days later the OK came. The municipality is out of liability in the simplified procedure, so they usually have no problems with it ... unless the submitted documents deviate significantly from a buildable construction. I have also heard about this here, for example, 4 residential units were to be built on one parcel, only 2 were allowed. And demanding a demolition is neither fun for the municipality nor for the builder.

Thanks for the info. I hope my reply didn't come across as too cheeky. We are now actually considering withdrawing the existing application and submitting a new one with the change in window orientation. The official at the building authority already knows us a bit, maybe it will then proceed more quickly. The main thing is that there are no further errors in the documents. Of course, the architect has to cooperate and prepare all the documents again, we will probably have to struggle with her a bit.

.. so which company does the architect belong to? And how is that connected with

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The architect belongs to the construction company and prepares the building application documents. Furthermore, due to poor preparation / errors in the plans, we have been excluded from the simplified procedure and now have to either follow the normal process with a 2-3 month deadline or find another way. We are not prepared for an additional 2-3 months of waiting time.

Hello,

nope, not cheeky, fitting.

The difference between independent architects and "draft slaves" in the form of architects employed by general contractors/subcontractors is striking. Our architect responded to our wishes, picked them up and improved them (within the scope of the commissioned service phases). My relatives are also currently building or waiting for the building permit approval (no development plan here). Their architect only "messed up," neither did she implement desired things (instead she worsened things that were already good), nor did she manage required things on the first or even second attempt. That was apparently a very tedious matter.

But who can blame her, she’s just sitting out her time ...

because a window is positioned in the wrong cardinal direction and is not in accordance with the development plan.

Interesting. I have never read that a development plan specifies the cardinal direction of windows. Can you quote the development plan literally?

This special permit now takes another 2 months.

... and costs additional fees.

We request a meeting with the construction company and want to insist that they cover the costs for the building notification

Good luck. If a two-month delay already has catastrophic consequences, what will the dispute with the construction company cause?

but that does not automatically make the architect bad

It's a pity that I do not know point 6.3. But if it says that windows facing north are prohibited, and she plans a window facing north, that would be quite bad.

Or does it now make sense to cancel the ongoing building application

Yes, if you have found a draftsperson authorized to submit building applications whom you trust and who is willing to file the building notification.

or could it possibly result in even more chaos?

Only you can judge whether you can expect that much flexibility and competence from the construction company.

but due to this change we are out of the simplified procedure

Most likely because of the aforementioned window.

The architect advises against it, apparently does not want to take any risks because in this case you are basically building without any permit and later are liable for possible deviations yourself (which we basically do not have).

She has already proven her incompetence. And you want to hand over full responsibility to her?

It remains, in my understanding, incomprehensible to nonsensical: where a permit exemption and a building notification differ, the latter usually applies to permit-exempt but notification-required buildings, which in some federal states can be, for example, single carports.

That is due to the fine peculiar differences in the federal states. Sometimes the procedures even have the same name but quite different requirements. The simplified procedure in Brandenburg has very little to do with the earlier simplified procedure in NRW.

We (so we and the architect) are jointly liable now in the simplified procedure

Speaking of smart aleck comments: you mean the permit exemption according to §63 Building Code NRW 2018 (formerly §67), and not the simplified approval procedure according to §68 former version.

we got kicked out of the simplified procedure and now have to take the normal route with a 2-3 month deadline

In the simplified procedure, the authority can also take 3 months according to §63, paragraph 4: (4) A decision on the building application must be made within three months after submission of the complete application documents; the building supervisory authority may extend this period by up to two months for important reasons vis-à-vis the applicant. The application shall be deemed approved if no decision has been made within the period specified in sentence 1.

Everyone is babbling something here and then Escroda comes and cleans up once. :) There is probably nothing to add to that.