Floor plan of a single-family house with approximately 150 sqm on a rear lot

Is the driveway from the neighbor supposed to enter the garages like this?



Then the almost 4.5 m is already too little. In my opinion, it has to be at least 6 m. Then a gap of 3 m for reversing. Have fun with the daily maneuvering.

No, its garage doors should face west.

Directly in front of your kitchen window? Nice o_O *sarcasm*.

The idea is pragmatic. So short distances for the disposal. If that doesn’t become practicable (smell or something similar), then a new location would have to be found (e.g. northeast).

How does the neighbor drive into his garage, from the north or from the west (because you wrote something about a shared driveway).
What does it actually look like to the east, is the railway elevated or could you still have some view of the canal. Acquaintances of ours live in Fach and actually have a nice view of the canal from a terrace on the upper floor - almost like Hamburg :p .

To the east comes a gravel path for pedestrians/cyclists, then the railway embankment and the canal. Both are higher than our property, so no distant view.

What I still do not understand - but is somehow essential for the property design - is how the neighbor plans his driveway (from the west) and how the shared use of your driveway (why?) is supposed to look. Also why the neighbor does not move his garage as far north as possible, but instead leaves 1.5m of space to the boundary there (why?).

How far along is the neighbor's planning, or are these also just "home-made" sketches?

What I still don't understand – but which is somehow essential for the property design – is how the neighbor plans his driveway (from the west) and how the shared use of your driveway (why?) is supposed to work. Also why the neighbor doesn't push his garage as far north as possible but leaves 1.5m space to the boundary there (why?). How far along is the neighbor's planning, or are these just "home-made" sketches?

The neighbor of 190/25 has a rather deep entrance base to the front door (north side). If we were to fence off our driveway (3m wide), he would have trouble getting his cars past his house. That's why we agreed that both he and we can use the full width of our two driveways together. He doesn't want to push the garage as far north as possible to avoid possible damages or similar caused by us. Hence the 1m or more distance from his northern boundary. All currently just considerations, nothing of it implemented yet.

I had imagined it like this. Possibly move the kitchen window to the north?

That's why we agreed that both he and we can use the full width of our two driveways together.

My first tip would be to record this in the land register – with all rights and obligations. Otherwise, if either of you sells, these "agreements" would no longer apply and there is huge potential for trouble. If joint use is planned anyway, why not completely – meaning also with access to his garage from the north. Can you roughly mark his house on the site plan? Regarding the floor plan – unlike many prefab house floor plans, you have the requirement of 4 rooms + bathroom on the upper floor. That doesn't make the search for ideas easy. But why should the children's rooms face west? A new house will be built relatively close there. Both children's rooms facing south (e.g. with a dormer) offers a much nicer view. The bungalow to the south also looks quite new, the plot is also divided but used together, and I do not assume this will change soon with this fairly new bungalow. Also, access for a rear property there would be difficult. The beautiful and "private" side of your plot will be the south and east (there are trees in front of the railway embankment). My concept would therefore be children's rooms facing south, bedroom probably northwest (actually preferably east, but how loud/heavily trafficked is the railway line?).