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2021-07-15 16:14:33
- #1
Hello,
I would appreciate good input and the collective wisdom, as we are currently stuck with the planning of our parking spaces and carport, but we need some kind of concept if we want to make a reasonably solid cost plan.
In the attachment, you will hopefully find all the necessary documents needed for idea generation.
As you can see on the elevation plan, the house as well as (in the original version) the placement of the carport are already planned. The depicted carport is 4x8m (including storage room). The distance from the house to the right property boundary is 6.5 m (minimum distance 6 m due to building encumbrance, but we didn’t want more so that enough garden space remains). Originally, a 4m wide carport with one parking space in front was planned, but the municipality requires 2 separately accessible parking spaces, each 2.5 x 5m. There are no exceptions to this. Therefore, initially, for approval, a second parking space was placed between the sidewalk and driveway (which fit well with the 6.5m), but you can see in the elevation plan that we have a slope there. The carport on the boundary may have a maximum average height of 3m, which is why there is a ramp in the plan there. In the original plan, it would have been no problem to plant towards the neighbor and between the sidewalk and driveway. Now this is no longer possible. In addition, it slopes downwards and there is no planting strip left between the parking spaces and the sidewalk. However, the house is at street level, so there is a slope/wall there. You would almost have to build a railing because you can’t even plant there.
This is all not optimal and not nice either. Now we have been thinking all the time about how we could solve it.
For example, one could place a 5x5m carport directly on the boundary in front, but we do not like that regarding the main entrance. Also, it would be very tight in front of the front door. One could also make a parking space crosswise in front of the house… I also don’t find that optimal because then the car would be openly visible from the street. I believe fencing it is not allowed since otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough turning space at the back?
Alternatively, the carport could be placed entirely in the northeast, but the problem is that the house is built up by adding soil and the embankment slopes sideways by 1-2m. The carport would have to be almost at the original ground level to be placed on the boundary (because of the 3m height limit).
So… and now it gets difficult. Actually, we like the first plan best, but we have no good idea how to design it nicely when the sidewalk and driveway are not at the same height… and you can’t even put a plant there.
I look forward to ideas and if something is missing… I can hopefully provide most of it later.
Thank you very much.
I would appreciate good input and the collective wisdom, as we are currently stuck with the planning of our parking spaces and carport, but we need some kind of concept if we want to make a reasonably solid cost plan.
In the attachment, you will hopefully find all the necessary documents needed for idea generation.
As you can see on the elevation plan, the house as well as (in the original version) the placement of the carport are already planned. The depicted carport is 4x8m (including storage room). The distance from the house to the right property boundary is 6.5 m (minimum distance 6 m due to building encumbrance, but we didn’t want more so that enough garden space remains). Originally, a 4m wide carport with one parking space in front was planned, but the municipality requires 2 separately accessible parking spaces, each 2.5 x 5m. There are no exceptions to this. Therefore, initially, for approval, a second parking space was placed between the sidewalk and driveway (which fit well with the 6.5m), but you can see in the elevation plan that we have a slope there. The carport on the boundary may have a maximum average height of 3m, which is why there is a ramp in the plan there. In the original plan, it would have been no problem to plant towards the neighbor and between the sidewalk and driveway. Now this is no longer possible. In addition, it slopes downwards and there is no planting strip left between the parking spaces and the sidewalk. However, the house is at street level, so there is a slope/wall there. You would almost have to build a railing because you can’t even plant there.
This is all not optimal and not nice either. Now we have been thinking all the time about how we could solve it.
For example, one could place a 5x5m carport directly on the boundary in front, but we do not like that regarding the main entrance. Also, it would be very tight in front of the front door. One could also make a parking space crosswise in front of the house… I also don’t find that optimal because then the car would be openly visible from the street. I believe fencing it is not allowed since otherwise, there wouldn’t be enough turning space at the back?
Alternatively, the carport could be placed entirely in the northeast, but the problem is that the house is built up by adding soil and the embankment slopes sideways by 1-2m. The carport would have to be almost at the original ground level to be placed on the boundary (because of the 3m height limit).
So… and now it gets difficult. Actually, we like the first plan best, but we have no good idea how to design it nicely when the sidewalk and driveway are not at the same height… and you can’t even put a plant there.
I look forward to ideas and if something is missing… I can hopefully provide most of it later.
Thank you very much.