Understanding also that he got in touch a whole 6 months after the confirmation of the application (BZA) and after I had signed all the contracts and dismantled the existing house?
Yes. On the desks of energy consultants, it’s “all hands on deck,” so he might have only recently gotten around to taking another look at it, and for the explained reasons thought “vade retro, someone’s trying to shove me in jail again with one foot.” Unfortunately, self-builders are strongly emotional and much weaker in seeing things from their partners’ perspective.