ᐅ Development plan in North Rhine-Westphalia – Is an attic conversion possible?
Created on: 5 Feb 2019 14:31
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Matze999
Hello everyone,
I have a question regarding our development plan in NRW.
The requirements specify a one or one-and-a-half-story building style with an eave height of 4.50 m (15 feet) and a maximum building height of 9.50 m (31 feet).
From what I have researched so far, this means that on the upper floor (first floor) we can have at most two-thirds of the area of the ground floor.
My question is about the desired attic floor. Is it allowed under this development plan to have both a first floor and an attic floor?
I would interpret the regulation so that the combined area of the attic floor plus the first floor must not exceed two-thirds of the ground floor area, correct?
Can someone confirm this?
If this is the case, is there any reason why a balcony or roof terrace accessed from the attic floor could not be built on a bay window on the first floor?
I hope the question is not too specific...
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Matze
I have a question regarding our development plan in NRW.
The requirements specify a one or one-and-a-half-story building style with an eave height of 4.50 m (15 feet) and a maximum building height of 9.50 m (31 feet).
From what I have researched so far, this means that on the upper floor (first floor) we can have at most two-thirds of the area of the ground floor.
My question is about the desired attic floor. Is it allowed under this development plan to have both a first floor and an attic floor?
I would interpret the regulation so that the combined area of the attic floor plus the first floor must not exceed two-thirds of the ground floor area, correct?
Can someone confirm this?
If this is the case, is there any reason why a balcony or roof terrace accessed from the attic floor could not be built on a bay window on the first floor?
I hope the question is not too specific...
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Matze
Matze999 schrieb:
I would see it like this: the living area of both the attic and the upper floor must not be larger than two thirds of the living area of the ground floor, right? Apart from the three-quarters rule, the upper floor does not take the ground floor into account. It always relates to the floor directly below!
So if the ground floor has 100 m² (1,076 sq ft), the upper floor may have up to 75 m² (807 sq ft), and the attic can have 75 * 0.75 m² = 56.25 m² (606 sq ft). However, if the upper floor does not use its allowed 75 m² (807 sq ft) fully, for example only 60 m² (646 sq ft), then the attic can be considered a full floor!
I believe the OP has a "like-minded person" in this forum – I suspect behind his forehead there is a similarly fundamental, somewhat offbeat idea as in this thread:
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Sheldor schrieb:
We want to increase the ground floor area by adding bay windows so that the usable space under the sloping ceilings on the upper floor is as small as possible (Hessen; upper floor max. 75% of the ground floor with a height >2.3m (7 ft 7 in) from raw floor to top of roof structure).
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/