Which property to buy? The agony of choice

Hello everyone,

we (my husband and our 3 children) have the opportunity to buy a building plot from our municipality (in the north of NRW) in a new development area.
The municipality allocates most of the plots according to social criteria such as number of children, already living in the municipality, workplace in the municipality, etc. Since we meet many social criteria, we are among the top 5 applicants. In total, the municipality is selling 47 plots at a "discounted" price of 265 EUR/m2 (normal price 360 EUR/m2) in the second sales phase – in the first phase, 21 plots have already been sold.

Because of our high score, we were already invited by the municipality on Monday (08/23) to purchase a plot. We have to decide on a plot at this appointment – the municipality does not grant a longer reflection period.

We want to build a city villa with 2 full floors and a garage, but without a basement. The living area should be about 180m2.
Since about 4-5 applicants can choose a plot before us, we have created a ranking of our favorites:

Plot number
1. 1517 (Advantages: no neighbor on the right, green spaces on the right, garden facing south, few restrictions for the building to be constructed, good size / disadvantages: not located on a play street or dead-end street, driveway for another plot in the north / neutral: social housing in larger buildings nearby)
2. 1518 (Advantages and disadvantages the same as 1517 except neighbors on both left and right)
3. 1521 (Advantages: dead-end location, play street / disadvantages: garden facing north, neighbors on left and right, larger building opposite)
4. 1522 (Advantages and disadvantages like 1521 + no neighbor on left, front plot area slightly "cut off")
5. 1466 (1465 already allocated) Centrally located in the development area. Advantages: play street location, further away from larger buildings. Lots of sun in the garden from midday. Disadvantage: plot smaller than the other plots.

According to our architect, our construction project can be realized on all the above plots.

According to the development plan, the following regulations apply to the plots 1517, 1518, 1521, and 1522:
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..for plot 1466
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Additional attachments:
3. Overview of the development area: The plots in the red-colored area are currently being sold. The plots in the yellow area were already sold in 2020.
4. Plots for sale: (Yellow plots are sold by the municipality, the white ones are sold by the farmer himself)
5. Development plan: I have drawn blue arrows for the two relevant areas.
6. Aerial photo:

I would be very happy about any feedback – it's enough if you just share your gut feeling. Maybe one plot is much better and we just haven’t "seen" it so far. I hope the attachments are readable and my descriptions are understandable. If anything is unclear, please say so.

Best regards
Claudia

My favorite would be 1434. Access from the north, beautiful southwest garden with an open view of the field, no neighbors on this side. 1425 is similar, would be my second choice.

What will happen to the field in the west in the long run? Are you budget-wise fixed on a plot size? 1441 looks quite good, most of the others are fairly compact if houses, parking spaces, etc. are on them. Look at the green space planning, maybe you prefer a neighbor rather than the border to a public green space.

First of all, praise for the excellent preparation. My favorite of the mentioned plots would be 1518 (Nordzufahrt, not like 1517 directly adjacent to the green area).

My favorite would be 1434. Access from the north, nice southwest garden with a clear view of the field, no neighbors on this side. 1425 is similar, would be my second choice.

..these two plots were also my absolute favorites until I saw this in the development plan:

Unfortunately, the eaves height may be max. 4.7m here, so you cannot build 2 full stories - which I find very unfortunate and it really annoyed me.

Unfortunately, the eaves height here may only be a maximum of 4.7m, so you cannot build 2 full floors here – which I find very regrettable and was really annoyed about.

However, II means two full floors, only the upper one will not have a straight wall floor. It doesn't always have to be caviar, uh, a suburban villa ;-)