Not your neighbor’s trees that shade the sun or your neighbor’s snowblowers that dig up your driveway and garden.
But years of neighborly quarrels about bicycle parking on the ground up against some poles on the roof terrace on the 8th floor – how is that possible?
Explanation follows.
First to the local newspaper Nordre Aker Budstikke, which reports that one side in a “neighborly war” in Nydalen in Oslo has now met hard against hard.
Tear down the pergolas on the roof on the 8th floor or apply for a building permit. One or the other – the deadline is 12 July.
30,000 + 1,000 a day
If not, there will be a fine/injunction of NOK 30,000 plus daily fines of NOK 1,000 24 hours a day after 12 July until the matters are sorted out as decided by the building authorities.
This appears from a letter from the Planning and Building Agency in Oslo municipality to the owners of two illegal terrace buildings, which according to the agency go 70-80 centimeters beyond the zoning plan for the block of flats.
HISTORIC PERGOLA: The very first house in Salt Lake City in the USA is a log cabin from 1847. It now has shelter from the weather under a pergola according to old definitions. Photo: Historia/Rex/NTB.
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Dagbladet has been in contact with one of the defendants, who wishes to remain anonymous and who has not decided on the next move in the case.
First, a new point of rest – what is a pergola?
Great Norwegian Lexicon explains it like this:
A pergola is a construction of posts or columns covered with logs or beams laid with open spaces, usually intended to be overgrown by creepers. It can serve as a gazebo or framing a garden path.
How can there be prolonged neighborly quarrels like this?
– Not the view
Former resident and former chairman of the board Espen Burud in the condominium for the four blocks in Fernanda Nissens gate 1 in Nydalen explains from a new address in Asker municipality:
– No, it is not residents on lower floors or other buildings who have complained about damaged views. However, building without applying and subsequently beyond the area limit affects the property’s common area.
– In this case, we could not build bicycle parking because the building area was used up on the roof.
Four other similar cases on the roofs around there have been resolved previously.
– And the Planning and Building Agency will have even more to do if they check rooftop buildings all around, ex-chairman Espen Burud believes.
