ᐅ Building an End-Terrace House – What Technical Requirements Should Be Considered?
Created on: 4 Dec 2018 09:30
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Hello everyone,
First of all, I would like to say a friendly hello to the group. I just registered because I couldn’t find any help on Google for my question.
We are planning to apply for a corner townhouse plot in our community. However, the municipality has not hired a developer to build the houses; instead, the houses have to be constructed independently by the owners.
There is a points system for the application, where factors like the number of children, how long you have lived in the community, and so on are weighted differently.
If you join forces with other interested parties and apply together, these points are added up, increasing your chances of being allocated a building plot. At the same time, you commit to building together, meaning you also have to coordinate with a developer.
We have tried to find people from our community, where we also live, who share the same ideas for building. This turned out to be impossible, as everyone has different opinions on how to build.
Therefore, we will probably apply alone for an end townhouse. However, I am now wondering if there are any laws or regulations regarding self-managed construction of townhouses? For example, if we build two full floors with an attic and a mono-pitched roof, is it allowed for the middle house to have a gable roof and only two full floors? Or does the first person to build set the standard that the others must follow?
Please forgive me if these are beginner questions — but I am one.
Thank you for your help!
First of all, I would like to say a friendly hello to the group. I just registered because I couldn’t find any help on Google for my question.
We are planning to apply for a corner townhouse plot in our community. However, the municipality has not hired a developer to build the houses; instead, the houses have to be constructed independently by the owners.
There is a points system for the application, where factors like the number of children, how long you have lived in the community, and so on are weighted differently.
If you join forces with other interested parties and apply together, these points are added up, increasing your chances of being allocated a building plot. At the same time, you commit to building together, meaning you also have to coordinate with a developer.
We have tried to find people from our community, where we also live, who share the same ideas for building. This turned out to be impossible, as everyone has different opinions on how to build.
Therefore, we will probably apply alone for an end townhouse. However, I am now wondering if there are any laws or regulations regarding self-managed construction of townhouses? For example, if we build two full floors with an attic and a mono-pitched roof, is it allowed for the middle house to have a gable roof and only two full floors? Or does the first person to build set the standard that the others must follow?
Please forgive me if these are beginner questions — but I am one.
Thank you for your help!
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Caspar20204 Dec 2018 18:06The development plan for this case is not relevant to the question posed by the original poster; at least, there are no usual requirements that the appearance, roof shape, or similar features must be uniform within a group of houses.
However, I am aware of development plans where such regulations are mandatory.
It is possible that the authorities overlooked this in this case, but that should work in favor of the original poster.
However, I am aware of development plans where such regulations are mandatory.
It is possible that the authorities overlooked this in this case, but that should work in favor of the original poster.
From my perspective, the municipality seriously dropped the ball: legally, I see only joint applicants being obligated to coordinated planning, but technically it should generally be required. The application form should have included information about who you plan to build with (treating prefabricated house manufacturers and traditional builders equally); then the plots would be allocated accordingly so that everything fits together. For example, a Weberhaus group, a Schwörerhaus group, a Huberbau house group, etc.; and applications for specific plots would only be accepted if you join the majority within your group of four.
How else should it work? The building authority would have to notify all other members of a house group when the first applicant's plan is officially stamped, and require the others to use the first applicant’s drawings as a reference, or what? Someone clearly did not think this through.
Coordinating a group of four is three times as complex as coordinating a semi-detached house, and even there I clearly advocate for joint planning.
I can already imagine basement-free builders, partially basement builders, pitched-roof builders, and stepped-roof builders going to court heavily armed against each other. The mayor won’t have to run in the next direct election.
Not handing the entire development area over to a single developer is commendable—but the details here don’t seem well thought out.
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How else should it work? The building authority would have to notify all other members of a house group when the first applicant's plan is officially stamped, and require the others to use the first applicant’s drawings as a reference, or what? Someone clearly did not think this through.
Coordinating a group of four is three times as complex as coordinating a semi-detached house, and even there I clearly advocate for joint planning.
I can already imagine basement-free builders, partially basement builders, pitched-roof builders, and stepped-roof builders going to court heavily armed against each other. The mayor won’t have to run in the next direct election.
Not handing the entire development area over to a single developer is commendable—but the details here don’t seem well thought out.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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Mottenhausen4 Dec 2018 20:3611ant schrieb:
In my view, the municipality really dropped the ball:
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It’s commendable that they didn’t hand over the entire development area to a single developer, but in the details, it seems poorly thought out.Especially since they set the number of plants per area along with a planting list, yet they fail to specify, for example, a consistent roof shape and common ridge height for each section. If the intention is to have variety, that’s fine—then each section could have been designed differently. But like this... what kind of chaos is this supposed to be?
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Caspar20204 Dec 2018 21:2611ant schrieb:
How else is that supposed to work? The building authority would have to, for each group of houses, notify the others as soon as the first applicant’s plan is officially stamped, and explain the sectional drawing of the first house as a scale reference for the others, or what? Someone obviously didn’t think this through.It doesn’t have to be that way. A row house frame doesn’t have to look identical.
And technically, that’s not a problem either.
Caspar2020 schrieb:
And technically, that’s not a problem When the owner of the adjoining basement comes in later, it always causes complications.
Caspar2020 schrieb:
A timber frame doesn’t have to look the same right away. Of course, everyone can comply with the development plan differently than their neighbor. But then the row as a whole looks like crooked teeth, and the fact that the “joint alignments” of the shared party walls cross each other irregularly along the height level is not ideal for the sealing of some building components either.
Consideration—both for the neighbor and for those viewing the two houses—is not a sign of lack of individuality. Make love, not war—transform garden fences into plowshares.
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apokolok
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It is stated in the development plan:
In WA1 and WA3, the following roof types are permitted:
- Gable roofs, tent roofs, and hip roofs: up to a maximum roof pitch of 40°.
- Shed roofs: up to a maximum roof pitch of 15°.
- Flat roofs: up to a maximum roof pitch of 10°.
In practice, it is advisable to build the three units with the same roof style.
Technically, different roof types are possible, but this is probably not intended. However, the development plan does allow it for now.Well, I will NOT look into the development plan myself. Feel free to share the facts here.
However, I’m quite negative about the houses if everyone has their own detached house or semi-detached house designed by separate architects. Then you get a two-story home with a hip roof as a semi-detached house next to a gable roof version with a different ridge height... Not to mention the facade designs—one with a modern box shape and a shed roof, the other with mullioned windows and a country style.
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