Terrace planning for a corner terraced house with a large garden - What to consider?

  • Erstellt am 2025-08-04 13:41:23

MachsSelbst

2025-08-20 11:16:28
  • #1
The whole thing also has practical reasons... on a completely paved plot, hardly any water seeps away during heavy rain, and it heats up insanely in summer, which massively affects not only oneself but also neighbors and nature. To connect two terraces (although that’s nonsense anyway, you only sit on one) as some garden landscapers have apparently advised, lay terrace slabs at a distance of 65-70cm (center to center) as a path, with lawn in between. Or you make a path with these gravel grids. Or grass paver stones... Anything, but certainly not more paving, concrete, sealing... And for those who don’t want to maintain a large garden... there are either ways and means, via automatic watering, robotic lawn mowers, etc. Or simply the realization that a house with a garden was apparently the wrong choice compared to a condominium... paving everything over, dumping gravel, etc. certainly cannot be the solution.
 

chand1986

2025-08-20 13:50:42
  • #2

You can simply sow a poor grass lawn on 20cm of gravel. It blooms like crazy, is environmentally friendly as hell, and is mowed once a year. Why would you want a large property and then pave it over? It then gets extra hot on the terrace in summer; why exactly is that good?
 

Bauherrin123

2025-08-20 17:56:15
  • #3


I completely agree with you. One thing I admit is that I will build the terrace smaller as discussed here in the thread with the recommendations and also with alternative paths that are not counted. The problem is, I already have a large (for me) plot. I cannot build a pool, garden house, or terrace on 50m2 because everything would be too small or not feasible at all, or if you look very closely, we also have a strip in front of the homeowner’s property that is 1m wide and runs along the house, paved, while in the plans it is marked as green.

I agree with everyone who is against too much paving. However, I still have to say that, for example, we are the end house and share the street with the other two parties as a private road. There should be two beds. One I can understand, it is in one place, it doesn’t bother anyone. The other we did not build, I only noticed it now. That would be a bed practically in the middle of the driveway, turning would be difficult, and it would hardly be possible to get in because it would be narrow on both sides. It’s hard to explain. But that is on the communal area, so if an inspection comes, we all have a problem. With this bed, I would even go to court, it’s outrageous that there should be a bed there, it would significantly complicate access.

What I want to say is that building authorities also overdo it. The problem is that often people still build more and bigger, but here we have the mentioned neighbor and also a very modest building authority.

I have already called and asked, and the lady said it would all be no problem and that I should build, but I wanted a legally secure statement that is binding and (after long back and forth) I should submit a building inquiry. Neighbors further down the street have already reported that their construction company, like ours, paved too much on the communal area, and it was done there too. Now the building authority had drones flying over the gardens and they complain. Now the neighbors’ garage roofs should be greened differently as compensation and an area possibly demolished that is used as parking space. (There are no parking spaces in town) but the main thing is to tear down.

I will reconsider the terrace as discussed here, alternatives, etc., but with just under 50m2 and only terrace and walkway, garden house and pool, the 50m2 would also quickly become built upon...

Therefore, the consideration would be whether to get a permit and then surely be allowed to exceed a little, maybe not as much as at first but a bit. Of course, I don’t want to wake sleeping dogs, but my neighbor will awaken them, or rather they let people build first and come later... and make them tear down.
I would most like to have the permit to build a bit bigger, for which I would later crown the garage roofs or plant 2 more trees as compensation, the neighbors would have to do the same because their properties are very small and it was unreasonable, so I wonder why the same does not apply to me.
 

11ant

2025-08-20 18:17:20
  • #4
Private road ... common area ... could it be that your "property" only refers to your "exclusive ownership area" in a condominium townhouse row (and the entire campus represents the property in terms of the floor area ratio)?
 

Bauherrin123

2025-08-20 18:22:52
  • #5
So the plot was divided into 3 plots for 3 houses. Due to the subdivision, the neighbors have a small plot and with the construction of a house they would already exceed the allowed area. There is an access road leading to all three houses. This access road belongs proportionally to all three. It was only allowed to be paved with eco-paving.

This access road/private road/community area is billed separately, right?

For the terrace, I only calculate with my plot and my area.
 

Bauherrin123

2025-08-20 18:23:53
  • #6
P.S. We do not have any building encumbrance from the others, and everyone received their own invoice for [sek Grundstück].
 

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