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2021-12-26 23:34:45
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4m distance from the house is more than enough. The widely used gravel strip as splash protection doesn’t have to be done (unless you have a wooden house), you can put soil there instead. That leaves 1-1.5m space next to the house that you can plant well.
I would do it as follows:
Light gray is the new parking space (kind of like a parking bay), dark blue is fence, light blue is a small gate, and the medium green dots are plants (bushes, shrubs, perennials, hedges, etc). So no fence at the street boundary—neither at the parking space nor at the access path. Instead, only in front of the new parking space as well as behind the house entrance (plus possibly to the right of the driveway carport—this depends on the situation on site).
Advantage: Carport & access path remain as originally planned and there are no problems maneuvering in the parking bay. Also, you still have a direct way to the property/terrace, and you can walk all around the house.
Months later, I stumble over your drawing again and think: This is the best solution! We have really puzzled over it for many months and even relocated the carport for a lot of money and reapplied for it, and still were not satisfied (see picture), because although you have a parking space at the house, at the end the access right past the house to the garden is missing. We are building without a basement, meaning we need storage space (garden shed, big garage, etc.). Without the carport on the right there is no "ramp" to go down, so you can’t place trash bins, bikes, etc., on the right top side of the house if you have to lug everything over stairs. At the end of the day, your solution is probably the cheapest and simplest solution. I still find the idea strange to put the house directly on the sidewalk, but we are anyway moving away from "closing off" the yard. That would only have been possible with a rolling gate and even then it would have been almost unaffordable.
With the attached variant, backing out of the carport would have also become "complicated" because you’d have to reverse back onto the yard...
Currently, there is a 2nd variant that I would like to present here, which is certainly conceivable for us, but I need help regarding the driveway:
This variant would mean that in the northern corner of the property up top (which doesn’t get much sun anyway...) a 6m wide and possibly 6-7m deep garage is placed. This garage offers more than enough space for everything and there are 2 parking spaces. The advantage is the yard at the top is free and there is space, you don’t need the parking space in front of the house and can plant there. I have roughly drawn how I would do the driveway. Ideally, it would only start after the front door (black triangle), that’s about 9m to the garage if it is 7m deep. Then 1.2m has to be bridged, which results in a 14% incline. But I’m unsure how wide I need to make the driveway at the bottom over what distance so that 1. you can drive in and out well if another car is parked inside and 2. is it comfortable to mostly reverse these 9m out? The 2nd problem, which you can see quite well in the picture, the garage approaches the house. The house (bottom edge of the slab) sits about 1.2m higher than the garage foundation. Especially where garage and house get very close, I would have to support the house or the ground underneath. Is that sufficiently possible with angle brackets? After all, I need the driveway to the garage here...
Worst case scenario, but I think that is exaggerated: adjust the building application, push the house 1m further in, then parking spot perpendicular in front of the house and/or house 1m further to the left, plenty of space for everything, but less garden... and all of that just for parking spaces... that can’t be it. I am also attaching the survey so it’s easier to visualize. OK bottom edge of slab is at 205.49.
From the survey it also becomes clear why placing CP/garage next to the house isn’t possible because the slope doesn’t work. Entrance etc. are fixed and can no longer be changed, the house will definitely be built as planned.
Also attached is another side view of the originally planned carport.. you can see why that isn’t that simple.. the terrain profile makes life difficult..
In the end, we come back to the original variant because it 1. allows passage to the back 2. offers lockable storage 3. is somewhat feasible. It’s annoying that we only took 4m instead of 5m distance to the street, earlier the idea was to just put planting there before suddenly it was said that two separate parking spaces are needed.. with 5m you would have put the parking space perpendicular to the street and that would have been it. So now it just takes a long stretch.
Anyone else with good ideas? Especially about the garage driveway?