Building Permit (Baugenehmigung)

Early morning at 6:32am we received bad news from City Hall's Engineers Office, Herr W. The message is: based on the law under the building permit application paragraph 56... if we did not receive any letter from the City Hall from the time we sent the application until a month is over, we can start to build. If we based it on the day we changed the application form, that means, we need to move the scheduled dates of building (for example the scheduled building of the basement next week).

For recap, we applied for the building permit last July. ProHaus Architect's Office prepared a wrong application form. Engineer from the Regional Office, Herr S, (who's in-charge of building permits in the area), was on vacation leave during the time our application arrived on their deparment. We waited for three weeks before we learned that we should have applied for building permit under paragraph 56 of HBO. A lot of time wasted *sigh*

We changed the application form to building permit under paragraph 56 last August 26. We completed the attached documents (papers that we sent to Engineer's Regional Office and was returned to us), last August 28.

It is very frustrating to encounter such situation. We just lost time bcoz of nothing. And to think... when building a house, time is not only gold, but it is also costing money :(

Update: Hubby went to the City Hall before directly driving to office just to fix this issue. Good that he did that. Now we learned that it is ok to continue. From City Hall's Engineer's Office, there is no problem about the application.