The issue with the existing rights [Bestandsschutz] should be known by your architect. In our village, some people left the cellars standing and built over them.
The issue of legal protection of existing structures should be known by your architect. In our village, some people left the cellars standing and built over them.
Many building authorities do approve constructions on existing foundation walls (or even in place and size of them), but a formal legal protection for what stands above does not arise from a cellar alone.
Many building authorities do approve constructions on existing foundations (or even in place and size thereof), but a formal protection of existing rights for what stands above is not conferred by a cellar alone.
I find the building authorities somewhat inflexible. I would wish that one could sit down with them and they would say what is basically possible. But it’s the other way around: please submit plans for a preliminary building inquiry and then you are told that it’s not possible. Please submit new plans. Can the procedure not be made more constructive somehow?
I find the building authorities a bit cumbersome. I would wish that you sit down with them and they tell you what is basically possible. But it's the other way around: please submit a plan for the preliminary building inquiry and then they say it's not possible. Please submit a new plan. Can't the procedure be organized in a more constructive way?
That is not true. Many building authorities offer consultation hours for building advice - precisely so that you don't have to submit preliminary inquiries for the same building project multiple times.
Unfortunately, I can't send you a PM, I'm still too new. Would you maybe send me a message once?
It doesn't work the other way around either. My PM would end up in oblivion.
The neighbor on the left built on the boundary, and there are no windows there either. I just don't know exactly what the regulation is if you keep the three-meter distance.
After three meters, you of course may install windows.
Can't the procedure be made somewhat more constructive?