From my own experience, I can report that phone calls from our architects to the building authority were pointless. Email was problematic. They insisted on the preliminary building inquiry, which was not even submitted to the committees for consultation.
In the end, however, exactly this inquiry was decisive, and we were allowed to place the house and build the roof shape as already requested. The administration was informed and should have commented on it.
The building application was initially rejected only to be approved weeks later.
With us, the neighbors had to sign that they agreed with the surveying, the boundaries, and the construction. We are the only house that is being newly built and not in the adjacent new development area but in the existing area. This was a requirement from the building authority.
Hello,
I don't want to elaborate unnecessarily, but encumbrance entries are a completely different field. If a building project is planned differently than the "standard" and thereby triggers encumbrances
auslöst, then a preliminary building inquiry without the corresponding encumbrances is completely pointless.
You cannot "cure" an undesired roof shape (your example) through encumbrances. However, you can – and that is the intention here – "cure" setback distances and shifts within the building envelope by means of encumbrances. And unlike the roof shape, there is a
legal claim to this.
With deviations concerning the roof shape, you therefore have to say "please, please" – but with the displacement of the building structure that you cure through encumbrances, you do
not have to – quite the opposite. If the caseworker hampers the registration of a possible encumbrance by delaying (which is the only option given to him if the parties involved want to agree to the encumbrance), then the building project is ...
automatically approved after the deadline associated with the application for registration in connection with the specifically submitted building application expires.
If the building application is approved by expiration of the deadline or similar, the authorities have
no possibility to demand encumbrances afterwards, even if this would be necessary under building regulations, because there would no longer be any owner to force to sign.
Best regards
Dirk Grafe