Municipality development costs are too high - Should we commission it ourselves?

In my opinion, the information is far too vague to make a statement. What exactly needs to be developed? How far is the last "connection point" from which you can connect? Is there a road?

On our land, we only had electricity and a road was adjacent. Accordingly, we connected water = 12k for about 30m, wastewater via KKA about 5k. So the total was about 17k. We don't need gas. However, those were prices before the "mega construction boom phase." Drainage of rainwater is another issue entirely – I would never discharge it anyway.

The development up to the house is not included now.

In my opinion, the information is far too vague to make a statement. What exactly needs to be developed? How far away is the last "connection point" from which you can connect? Is there a road?

On our land, we only had electricity and a road was adjacent. Accordingly, we connected water = 12k for about 30m, wastewater via KKA about 5k. In total, it was about 17k. We don’t need gas. However, these were prices before the "mega construction boom phase." Drainage of rainwater is a different issue altogether – I would never discharge that anyway.

The connection up to the house is not included here.

I hope you understand what means with the text. There is an internal and an external connection.

Due to the high amount, I assume that your municipality most likely means the external connection, i.e., street, streetlights, electricity, water, telephone, and wastewater/sewer up to your property.

Even if you believe the external connection is already there, you will have to pay the fee for it. Even if it was developed 20 years ago.

Then you researched yourself and found that your research shows a lower amount. That is the internal connection, i.e., all lines from your property boundary to the house, about €8k–1Xk, depending on the distance from the house to the point where the utilities are at the street. The farther away, the more expensive. With and without gas, etc.

In addition to the connection costs, there are production costs that you have to pay to the municipal utilities. These depend on the floor area of the built house and were €12.45/sqm with us. These relate to electricity and wastewater. Either these are paid after completion of the house or collected as a lump sum in advance for a certain area and the rest settled later.

If there is no land use plan, it must be decided by the municipal council and posted for public notice. If someone now files an objection, then good luck. It could be that an amphibian or a rare bird lives there, then it will be even worse.

You don't do that in the village. The word counts.

You don't do that in the village. The word counts.

That's right. Therefore, any discussion about whether it is appropriate or if one can do the external development oneself is irrelevant in this specific case.

Without the deal, no one will push it through the committees to make the land buildable according to §34.