Fee notice for building application

I am not directly involved with the subject matter, but I am involved with the design of companies. If you break down the processing of a building application into individual processes, from incoming mail handling through input, reading, understanding, comparing with legal situations, correspondence, internal communication, if necessary forwarding, documentation, archiving... the effort (regardless of process efficiency quality) becomes immediately clear. In addition to the purely time-related effort (wages and ancillary wage costs), operating costs also arise (e.g., provision of office infrastructure, technical equipment, unproductive services such as human resources, etc.), which are broken down to the processing process within the scope of a full cost calculation. Since not every new application is the same, one will probably have to differentiate and evaluate different types of applications. Therefore, it is too simple to take a fee amount and divide it by an assumed hourly wage and wonder how many hours come out of it. To calculate the full costs of a building application in a specific authority, I would have to dive into the organization and cost structure. But you can also plausibilize and play around a bit. Presumably, you also pay for small building applications. By the way, there are guidelines that are used for fee determination. These include cost recovery as a performance principle, but also transparency, legal robustness, and — believe it or not — alignment with business management principles. The fee determination in your place of residence should therefore be able to be made comprehensible to you upon request in case of doubt.

It is understandable.
They say it is too cheap, we take our value.

Unbelievable, that generally valid fee schedules are now supposed to apply to you personally as well... that's really not acceptable. Fits perfectly with the thread from three weeks ago where you already didn't want to accept the validity of the development plan for yourself ( ) :rolleyes:

Maybe BW simply isn't the right place for you ;)

Well, see it this way: Just because it is legal according to the fee schedule doesn't mean it is fair!!

The development plan is already valid for me; for the wall, I am submitting an application for exemption.

The ridge direction was also different in the development plan than it is now. You don’t have to comply with everything that is written.

It's true, there is almost always some leeway. Our caseworker at the building authority called me during the approval phase and informed me that he could approve two exceptions (building width exceeding the limit, building 1m beyond the construction window), but the fee notice would increase by x€ (I don't remember anymore). That's how we did it.