Hello everyone,
we are currently building a single-family house with a basement apartment.
Our initial plan was as follows: You access the basement via a staircase. There is an exterior entrance door at the basement level. When you enter through this door, you come into a kind of hallway. From this hallway, there is one entrance to the 3-room basement apartment and another entrance to the utility room.
However, since one of the basement apartment rooms could not be classified as a quiet/sleeping room due to its orientation, we moved the door of this room to the "outside," meaning to the mentioned hallway, and declared it as a cellar. This left the basement apartment with only 2 rooms, and the hallway now has three entrances: to the apartment, to the cellar, and to the utility room.
We submitted the building permit / planning permission with this setup, and it was approved. In hindsight, we think it would be better to move the door back into the apartment so that the room can be used as a 3rd room for hobbies, work, storage, or similar (not as a quiet/sleeping room). From a financial perspective, a 3-room apartment would be more advantageous than a 2-room apartment.
Would I be able to relocate the door without issues, or would I need to apply for approval again? Getting approval would not be a problem, but I want to avoid losing time since we are already delayed. Also, I’d prefer not to pay unnecessarily. It is basically just one door being moved about 2m (6.5 feet); no other changes are involved.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
we are currently building a single-family house with a basement apartment.
Our initial plan was as follows: You access the basement via a staircase. There is an exterior entrance door at the basement level. When you enter through this door, you come into a kind of hallway. From this hallway, there is one entrance to the 3-room basement apartment and another entrance to the utility room.
However, since one of the basement apartment rooms could not be classified as a quiet/sleeping room due to its orientation, we moved the door of this room to the "outside," meaning to the mentioned hallway, and declared it as a cellar. This left the basement apartment with only 2 rooms, and the hallway now has three entrances: to the apartment, to the cellar, and to the utility room.
We submitted the building permit / planning permission with this setup, and it was approved. In hindsight, we think it would be better to move the door back into the apartment so that the room can be used as a 3rd room for hobbies, work, storage, or similar (not as a quiet/sleeping room). From a financial perspective, a 3-room apartment would be more advantageous than a 2-room apartment.
Would I be able to relocate the door without issues, or would I need to apply for approval again? Getting approval would not be a problem, but I want to avoid losing time since we are already delayed. Also, I’d prefer not to pay unnecessarily. It is basically just one door being moved about 2m (6.5 feet); no other changes are involved.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards
Ruffy99 schrieb:
This regulation has been relaxed to apply only to rest/sleeping rooms, not to living rooms. Ruffy99 schrieb:
There is indeed a distinction here between rest/sleeping rooms and living rooms. This must be specified somewhere in your zoning plan or development plan. However, we are not familiar with it to answer your question.
You need to provide reasons and sources if the reference possibly constitutes one of the grounds for approval or refusal.
Yes, this is specified in the development plan under a point as follows:
“Living areas must be oriented towards the side away from noise.”
I originally had the same issue on the upper floor. I then swapped a children’s room and an office so that the non-compliant room became an office. That was approved. So they do make a distinction.
The following explanation was given to me by the building authority:
“The written regulations define that living areas must be oriented towards the side away from noise. Based on the reasoning in the development plan and the noise protection report, this requirement has already been relaxed to apply not to living areas but to bedrooms and quiet rooms, and as long as at least one window of the affected bedroom or quiet room faces the side away from noise, the requirement is considered fulfilled. Further relaxation or exemption of this regulation is not possible.”
“Living areas must be oriented towards the side away from noise.”
I originally had the same issue on the upper floor. I then swapped a children’s room and an office so that the non-compliant room became an office. That was approved. So they do make a distinction.
The following explanation was given to me by the building authority:
“The written regulations define that living areas must be oriented towards the side away from noise. Based on the reasoning in the development plan and the noise protection report, this requirement has already been relaxed to apply not to living areas but to bedrooms and quiet rooms, and as long as at least one window of the affected bedroom or quiet room faces the side away from noise, the requirement is considered fulfilled. Further relaxation or exemption of this regulation is not possible.”
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hanghaus202314 Jul 2024 12:39Then you could turn that into an office as well. It also looks better if the secondary apartment ends up being larger. You will probably want to claim this for tax purposes too. Are there any subsidies available?
If the tenant sleeps there, it’s no longer your problem.
If the tenant sleeps there, it’s no longer your problem.
Yes, exactly, that’s my thought.
My only question is whether I need to apply again if I want to move the door, or if I can just do it.
The problem is that I have waited ages for the approval and now I am finally in the middle of construction. Pausing again and waiting for approval would be frustrating.
My only question is whether I need to apply again if I want to move the door, or if I can just do it.
The problem is that I have waited ages for the approval and now I am finally in the middle of construction. Pausing again and waiting for approval would be frustrating.
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