ᐅ Have you taken future neighboring houses into account?

Hello,

for us, it’s already too late (the shell of the house is built), but I’m curious how you dealt with this when the houses on the neighboring lots were not yet built. Did you try to estimate the positions of your neighbors’ houses during the planning? Were you able to stay somewhat flexible, or did you simply plan based on the current state of the lots with the mindset “whatever happens, happens, it can’t be changed anyway”?

We tried to orient ourselves mainly by the cardinal directions, topography, and the landscape. But in the end, future neighbors could still block almost all of our sources of natural light and views.

The houses must maintain at least the minimum setback distances, but garages are allowed to be placed anywhere.

Regards

Oh dear, I understand. I’m already starting to see something similar nearby here as well. :-( Unfortunately, I’m anticipating the neighbor’s future garage right in front of our terrace. :-( At least our large living room window facing south is separated from the terrace... With a bit of luck, at least one of those will remain pleasant to look at. ;-)

During the construction itself, we didn’t pay much attention to it because, since we had already considered it when choosing the plot, it simply wasn’t necessary.
We have a corner plot in an edge development area. We only have one neighbor on the northeast side. We placed the carport and storage room there. 🙂

But it seems that many people don’t think about this at all. For example, with a northwest-facing garden, some even installed small sun terraces on the southwest side, which are permanently shaded after the neighbor built their garage, and similar issues.

One person noticed after the shell construction was completed that they would never get sun on their terrace if the neighbor built too close. Luckily, they had enough money to quickly buy the neighbor’s plot. 😀

But sometimes the plot situation simply doesn’t allow much, or the residents just don’t care that much. Everyone has different priorities...

Yes, at the time I didn’t really see the advantages of such a corner plot. However, even looking back now, my husband wouldn’t have considered it. (The edge was already fully developed here.) Edge development is really the best of the best, congratulations! You must have acted quickly when the building area was first developed, right?

Wow, your neighbor was able to simply buy the adjacent plot! Either he is wealthy, or the land prices are significantly lower in your area. :-)

My husband simply prefers the garden to be set back from the street, even if it’s just on the edge of town. For example, the city bus runs there regularly (yes, the location of the development is very good. :-) ) and the street has a very wide sidewalk, which we would also have to clear in winter. :-) A corner lot right at the edge is, of course, a completely different matter—probably you don’t even have a street around your corner? :-)
The edge lots here were apparently already snapped up by insiders before the development was officially announced. :-(
Well, I’m glad that we still managed to find a fairly good plot. We had already searched the entire surrounding area.
I don’t want to complain about our lot either, but it’s still disappointing that the lovely light and views to the forest, which are currently there without neighbors, will disappear soon. :-/

willWohnen schrieb:
My husband simply prefers to have the garden away from the street, even if it’s just the edge of town. For example, the city bus regularly passes by (Yes, the location of the development is very good. 🙂 ), and the street has a very wide sidewalk that we would have to clear in winter anyway. 🙂 A corner lot right on the edge is definitely something different; you probably don’t even have a street around your corner, right? 🙂

Snow removal is definitely a bigger issue in Bavaria than here in the flatlands of Lower Saxony 😀
We basically have a nature reserve area behind us, the mentioned neighbor to the right, and a small dead-end street to the left that is used by two neighbors (who live opposite on the dead-end street). So, not much traffic on that street.

The corner lots here were apparently already snapped up by insiders before the development area was "announced." :-(

Luckily, we were the insiders. 😀 Initially, we didn’t even want to build but planned to buy something. During our search, we found out by a lucky coincidence that the city council had just decided to designate an area for housing. The potential development area had actually been divided into individual parcels and included in a zoning plan years ago, but the infrastructure development had been delayed for a long time because other projects were prioritized. After many people expressed a strong desire to build in that area, the city finally approved the infrastructure development. By chance, we saw the plans before they were officially released, and my wife and I joked that if we got that particular plot, we might actually go ahead and build. The person we spoke with just laughed and said, “That’s not bad, but the land is privately owned. However, I think they want to sell because the family moved away.” He gave us the phone number, and we called that same evening. The next day, we agreed on the purchase price (which later turned out to be quite reasonable) and immediately arranged the notary. It was just a bit of luck…