Neighbor wants to prevent a flat roof. Exception possible according to the plan.

Our neighbor now wants to prevent us from building our house with a flat roof. He demands that we build, just as he did back then, with a roof pitched on one or two sides.

Well, essentially it is his annoyance about the restrictions in his own house and that now flat roofs are also allowed, which means the restrictions regarding size no longer apply. I would claim that there is quite a bit of envy involved here... unfortunately.

If your flat roof is allowed, your neighbor is just out of luck. If it were the other way around and HE were to build now, he would probably also decide for the few slopes.

At least for us, it wasn't more expensive than the alternative of a gable roof.

At least for us, it was not more expensive than the alternative pitched roof.

That generally does not seem to be the case (anymore). We had the same concern back then, but the gable roof was definitely not cheaper for us. It should therefore always be considered individually. Additionally, to allow comparison: we have a flat roof with greenery, about 9x12m.

So "comparing apples and oranges" – or would the gable roof also have been greened?

Elephant, what are you getting at? A flat roof can be greened externally or internally, covered with gravel, artificial turf, or something completely different, or built without any of that. I just wanted to add the information about how we executed it. It doesn’t really matter whether I had compared a gravel-covered flat roof or a greened flat roof with a pitched roof since the differences were marginal in terms of costs. Initially, gravel covering was offered to us; the surcharge for greening was practically not worth the new version of the offer. But all this will vary individually depending on the construction partner; I never wanted to say more than that a general statement like flat roof = more expensive does not have to be true.