Wow, architects are really "all" (in the sense of sold out) or completely crazy. So who are you building with now?
I think your plan is quite okay. Your wishes, on the other hand, I find really crazy. In my opinion, the garden is completely excluded from the planning. Instead, you squeeze yourselves with the coffee cups by the street and in the neighbor’s corner. That means you will be sitting between stinking and noisy cars at the neighbor’s driveway, where his garage will probably block a large part of the sun from you again. Well, that’s how you see your neighbors a little more often, of course.
I seriously wonder how these assumptions and the resulting interpretations come about. When did I say that we sit between stinking and noisy cars at the neighbor’s driveway? So if you want to be precise, we even have the neighbor’s submission plan on the left side, whose garage starts just as late as ours, ergo we don’t see those at first but ours. We also now know from the neighbor to the right of us that he is building his garage on the right side of his house, which means there is first the property, then the neighbor’s house, then the garage, and this is also completely parallel to the house so that we don’t even get to see it.
Stinking exhaust gases: it is neither a through road/main road nor anything else, but just an access road to the new development area, and since there is one on the other side as well, only part of the new development area will use this road, of course including guests, postal vehicles & co.
The garden is in my opinion completely excluded from the planning. Really, how do you get that? Because I said that the garden planning in what I attached is not yet properly presented? We are already in contact with two garden designers in parallel, have discussed all possibilities, and have also obtained offers. So we know very well what the garden will look like.
What is so crazy about our wishes? I would like that explained in more detail.
When I look at new development areas and some planning here in the forum, I wonder what is crazy. Only architects do good planning work, sorry, I see that differently. Only houses in the middle of nowhere, with endless gardens, no neighbors, no adjoining garages or cars, where are you supposed to find that nowadays? Fully planned houses, with smart homes, gardens planned down to the last detail, expensive terrace systems, oversized garages, architect houses for money no one can afford anymore, pool and co, preferably financed over 50 years with the hope that nothing happens during that time that costs extra money? That’s when we talk about crazy ideas. Believe me, I know very well what I am talking about. I worked for a long time as a construction finance consultant, I know the completely exaggerated ideas of home builders. The main thing is to look good on the outside, and be in debt until old age. Everything can be financed, best beyond death, who cares. When you have been present at forced auctions, you see what happens to the families.