Most of those who wanted to build here without a basement would have sunk tons of concrete for retaining walls, plus much more earth to make the whole thing level.
That’s also why my basement rule exists - mind you, not a folk saying from the regulars’ table, but collected experience from forty years of dealing with construction - that a basement, where it is not really avoidable, 1. as a "compensatory measure" practically causes costs equivalent to a realization and 2. this applies not only to obvious cases completely, but also proportionally to all the "shades of gray in between"; specifically, a flat rate of ten percentage points per 20 cm height difference (in the floor slab area). Until, from two meters of height difference, a not-built basement is factually on a cost par with the built basement.
# single-storey
# the attic floors can be full floors
# is a knee wall with a maximum height of 1.00 m permitted
I read that as "1+D, attic without full floor avoidance, but from the 1m line to be executed as a pitched roof."