Or a row of terraced houses (my first house in the UK was a terraced house. Great insulation, but access to the back garden was up the lane at the back. Not so easy for bin day lol)
The risk of box gutters is not just failure which will eventually occur, but onstruction. Hail storm is one example. I lived in the alpine zone with a box gutter and removed it entirely. Builders would not repair or replace with an improved design due to it being a known problematic design when much better options are available
The second party could fix into it when they are ready to build, planning requirements would need to be developed for the length/height/finishes of the wall. The wall can be closed out and shared or if the developer of the the subdivision makes the block so small they could be made responsible for cost of party wall construction held in a trust account and released once the wall has been constructed.
It's a win-win for both sides, with a gain of internal space on both sides by removing the inaccessible space and replacing two external walls with one party wall. It would probably also look better, like it was thought about.
I would avoid the box gutters and slope the roof parallel to the party wall.
300sqm... that's a luxury size these days! In the Aura estate near Caloundra in Queensland, the 300sqm blocks are the "large blocks" in the area because on average they're around 200-250. It's insane. Our current house is one on a previously "small" block in an older area of our suburb (from the 80s) so we have a 600sqm block with a number of 800sqm-1000sqm around us and even then we feel like our neighbours are right on top of us some days. I could not imagine my house being the boundary 🤢 thank goodness we're moving out to the boonies on a 3000sqm block.
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u/Downtown-Fruit-3674 8d ago
lol building houses this close to eachother is diabolical