How to position the house? Restriction due to building boundary.

:confused: those are two really great tips. :eek:

I don't find the latter so far-fetched. It just takes some nerves and time. I would definitely not recommend the former - we had that in the neighboring village (although a bit worse) and they had to undo it... that means tear it down.

I do not believe that the objection referring to the energy saving ordinance would work. When the development plan was drawn up, they certainly had a reason for the building envelope.

We had exactly the same problem (had). We have now solved it by rotating the house so that the long side of the house faces the garden. If you have a corner plot, you might be able to rotate the ridge. This way, we came up to our building boundary toward the street in the north and placed the terrace facing west. We think it was THE solution for the plot. Our architect wouldn’t have come up with this either, especially since we absolutely wanted a double garage. Our plot is also 21x26m in size and the house will be about 8m wide and 12m long.

Where is the problem in moving the house accordingly so that a nice forecourt is created in front? How much depth is then available in the south? By the way, I don't see the corner with the prescribed distance to the street as a problem, since the requirement was already there before the house was chosen. I generally always see the problem in choosing a standard house before buying a plot of land. Then later everything is set in motion, including planning errors, so that the piece of house with the desired double carport can be forced in. With the advantages of a well-structured plot and floor plan in the discovery phase, one as an outsider can only argue poorly later on ;)

Good evening Sonja,

I can understand your frustration a little, but on the other hand, not really. In the vast majority of established development plans, the regulations therein have their purpose, and it is therefore understandable that the BVA was rejected; especially for this part of the property.

If we simply moved the house back, there would be almost 8m in front of the house!! That is so unnecessary!

Aside from the fact that you probably knew that before you bought the property ... I supervised a BV where the house had to be placed 11.00 m from the street. 8.00 m is therefore not a big deal; a front garden can also be integrated/designed in an interesting and harmonious way into the building project ;)

The house is on the north side, so the garden is on the south side. Does anyone have an idea?

We already tell our interested parties in the first consultation that building a house always means making compromises; the exciting question is always where the compromise is found, because there is no such thing as a perfect solution.

From my humble point of view, you have the following options:

[*]move the house back
[*]rotate the house – of course, depending on the room layout
[*]recess the house in the area of the boundary violation; there are exciting solutions
[*]split the house in the middle and plan both halves offset
[*]reduce the size of the house
[*]plan a simple garage with a parking space
[*]or have a new floor plan designed

You will have to die a "little death" ;)

Rhenish greetings