What would you do differently in the next house construction?

Eder Stil hat seine Berechtigung, es stellt sich nur die Frage, was ist "gute" Architektur?

First of all, if there even is such a thing. That means if a concept is recognizable "behind" it, and if the whole is indeed a "whole" and not just a haphazard pile. Proportion is part of it, for example – it doesn't necessarily have to be the "golden ratio," "sixteen to nine" is another style, neither better nor worse, but still preferably not mixed too wildly. So please no Andalusian Swedish house with round-arched doors and a half-hipped glass roof.

if the whole thing is indeed a "whole" and not just a cobbled-together pile

We understand each other Bauhaus and Art Nouveau must each be able to stand on their own, complement each other, step back, not steal the show from one another ..... simply fit!

solveigh, 11ant: line me up completely in the line!

But I've experienced bureaucratic madness quite often in my life. Don't ask me how I feel about civil servants

Lazy dogs can be found in all professions, although the likelihood of encountering one in an authority office probably feels higher. But even there I have often been very positively surprised. Therefore, I really have my problems with the general criticism of civil servants, because especially with the guys and girls in uniform out there, that is so out of place. The lack of appreciation already starts with the common parlance with its "cops," "chive squad," etc. - without exception, I have yet to encounter a single police officer who did not behave properly towards me, for the most part even relaxed and with humor - neither during my 8 years in Hamburg nor now in Franconia. Maybe it's also because I don't sabotage tracks, act like a jerk, or greet the friendly helpers with a friendly good day or hello. Although off-topic, it had to be said [emoji4]

Regarding the architectural style or development plan. A development plan can already be useful, but what is partially demanded from us simply goes too far. They babble about the village-like Franconian character and strictly require red roofing – even on the shed roof with a 7-degree pitch in the new development area. The facade colors are free, meaning I can put up a bright yellow or sputum green house, as long as it has red-orange tiles on the roof, the roof surface of which is practically barely visible. A neighbor "out of ignorance" put on anthracite-colored tiles, and immediately it was a topic in the municipal council, which wanted to obtain an order for removal from the district office. The district office conducted an on-site inspection and found that the roof surface is so barely noticeable that it could have an influence on the village character. Moreover, two streets away (outside the development plan) there are several houses with black and gray roofs, one of them right on the edge of the village, which shapes the village image significantly more than the neighbor’s house located in the middle of a new housing estate. Ergo, the district office says there is no reason and also recommends simply tolerating it. The municipal council will now take legal action... so much for arbitrariness and the characters in the layout plan. It seems to me that the more rural it gets, the greater the likelihood that in the layout meetings there are people who basically have little to say but then really play out their "power" in the layout meetings – in most cases ignoring the needs of the residents. And concerning the quality of the development plan. With us, the same "planning office" is commissioned again and again, which unfailingly plans past the people. Instead of reacting planning-wise to the slight slope of the building area, they much rather focus on roof tile colors and optional horizontal wooden slat fences for enclosures...

Unfortunately, it is the same with us....

The development plan is written for the properties opposite....
What happens with the others who have the hillside location does not matter...

They stipulate distances to the northern neighbor of almost 8m, and when it comes to deviations, which mainly concern the neighbors in the east and west, the first question asked is whether the northern neighbor has signed.

Yes, he has, but he doesn't care what I do there at an 8m distance on my property....

That shows me that unfortunately no one really understood what was actually regulated there.....