City villa floor plan with hipped roof - fine tuning

The development plan states: the parking spaces must be usable independently of each other.

This basically only means that one must not block the other. Against a double garage, this would not speak in itself, but I find your building line argument convincing and would probably plan the same way.

Maybe you could place the carport aligned directly with the street?

Probably not. Where such rules exist, there is typically no distinction.

You are happy about something you have worked on for a very long time, and then something like this happens. Well, I can handle criticism, because these things came about for certain reasons. The only thing was the staircase, I actually asked about the staircase.

Well, honestly: a car has a very nice dry spot with you. But you have it relatively dark. The property is a challenge. But there could clearly have been much more. Not just for one car. We also have a garage standing sideways. It has to have 3 meters to the front. That is a good noise and privacy protection for terraces located in the front area. If you have to swallow toads, then think sideways. In case of doubt, always prioritize the person. I can’t help that you didn’t inquire here earlier. Even if you dislike the staircase and asked about it here: changing a staircase means changing everything. A floor plan stands or falls with a staircase. Otherwise, it’s not the worst design. But you will still think back to our words. By the way, a building application is not sealed yet, you can still make changes if you can understand the argumentation.

When in doubt, always prioritize the person

A very un-German attitude.

Around here, the explosion engine-powered noise boxes have their own allure, which people can hardly compete with.

Try telling a Frenchman that you forego lighting in the living area because otherwise the shelter for the carriage wouldn't have fit. He'll nail you to the wall with silver stakes and hope for the best.

No, seriously: I too first thought, when looking at the property, to plan the house as far back as possible with a garage as a transverse bar in front. If I put a pergola 6m in front of the neighbor's garage and plant something climbing on it, I get light and no longer have such a stupid view.

The original poster has a point in that you shouldn't look at this property through the eyes of a rural resident — concessions are unavoidable here. Which ones, that's the question. Mine wouldn't be the ones made here either (although I'm not French).

A floor plan stands and falls with a staircase.

Normally yes, here I would almost say, in this special case not so much (because due to the "straight" upper floor there is no head height issue at the eaves wall). On closer inspection, unfortunately, yes: this staircase cannot simply be reversed in the running direction like that: the start at the current exit does not work, it collides with the passage width on the kitchen / dressing room side and with the living room door; changing the leg lengths of the L by shifting two steps in width at the back which must be removed in length at the front collides with the front door. So my conclusion is: only rotating the staircase in the staircase shaft (which would be a piece of cake, just a revision in the building application) does not work here. The house would have to be half a meter wider (or - at least non-load-bearing - walls significantly shifted).

First of all, many thanks to Invi85, here the actual question was answered for the first time.

To be honest, the fine print in the teaser box above the first ad can sometimes be overlooked - so one should not be angry if answers are oriented to the headline as the topic.