Hello Forum,
We are interested in a plot of land in a future residential development area. Our idea is a typical one-and-a-half-story single-family home with a pitched roof.
The development plan limits the eaves height to 3.50 meters (11 ft 6 in), defined as the distance between the top of the ground floor structural ceiling and the eaves.
In my understanding, the eaves are defined as the drip edge where the gutter is located.
Do you have any different interpretations of this point, and are one-and-a-half-story houses with knee walls not possible at all, with only bungalows allowed?
Extracts from the development plan are attached.
We are interested in a plot of land in a future residential development area. Our idea is a typical one-and-a-half-story single-family home with a pitched roof.
The development plan limits the eaves height to 3.50 meters (11 ft 6 in), defined as the distance between the top of the ground floor structural ceiling and the eaves.
In my understanding, the eaves are defined as the drip edge where the gutter is located.
Do you have any different interpretations of this point, and are one-and-a-half-story houses with knee walls not possible at all, with only bungalows allowed?
Extracts from the development plan are attached.
Nordlys schrieb:
Do you mean the point where your arrow is is more than 3.50 meters (11.5 feet)? Yes, that is roughly at the height of the window sill. This is usually about 90 cm (35 inches) above the finished floor level, but here it is only about 65 cm (26 inches) above the raw floor level, so practically about 40 cm (16 inches) too high if we also consider approximately 15 cm (6 inches) for the floor buildup. Theoretically, the original poster could refer to the development plan, as the wording suggests they could orient themselves to the raw ceiling of the ground floor—but this would clearly contradict the single-story requirement and would assume a street at basement floor level. Even a newly appointed judge without an expert would see that this cannot be the intended meaning. Therefore, it seems more reasonable, somewhat similar to a severability clause, to conclude that the intended meaning should be inserted instead, rather than considering the development plan "too vague" and effectively unenforceable in this regard.
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desixtor schrieb:
Hi, we have exactly the same eave and ridge height—see my profile picture ... and as you can see, it is clearly below the parapet height:
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kaho674 schrieb:
This slip-up in the wording with the raw ceiling is so amusing, it basically means a 2.5-story building. But it says raw ceiling on the ground floor
kaho674 schrieb:
It doesn’t have to be, because in this case you simply design the ground floor a little larger, lower the upper floor by about 1.30m (4 feet 3 inches) or so, and add a knee wall. Exactly. That’s how it’s done, and always has been. In times of urban townhouse villas, people just don’t think of the obvious.
The ground floor then offers a bit more space for the utility room or an office, which later can become a bedroom or even a whole master suite, while the attic under the pitched roof will provide plenty of room for great built-in wardrobes.
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