And thus began the fight for my backyard

[etath]

For about a year ago we bought, what I would call, my dream house. It was not big, but it is located in a very cute area, with the best neighbours I could ask for, and best of all; the big grand forest is just on my door step. Out of my kitchen window I got the untouched beauty of the forest and wild-life. Out in the forest I got my quiet sanctuary

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[etath]

I am not going to make an unreasonable fight about this, and certainly not going to make a bad neighbours for whoever move here, as they are not the ones responsible for this. The first step we, as neighbourhood, are going to do is to check up the opinions in our Borettslag, and then eventually file an official complaint. From what I gather, all in our "styre" for borettslaget are against the new plans. We can probably not stop the new housing plans, but we can at least request some space between our houses and the new houses so they would not entirely encircle us, according to what was indicated in the original plans. I do not think that is unreasonable.

It is regulated for housing now, yeah, however, it was no public plans for housing regulations here year ago when we moved here. We were, however, made aware of that it was an application for regulation changes in the area here, but that regulation change was for 60 new houses, and would be located further down.

What this regulation change they now show us says is completely different from what was known a year ago (and none of us in borettslaget had any indication that this would change), because the area has been extended all the way up to markagrensa, and physically connected with our properties, and has regulation for 150 new houses! It came as a shock for all of us, as the letter of notification came to to our borettslagleader on friday, and that was even after the first poles appeared in the forest.

I have heard lots about the fights around Gardermoen, when it first came to be, and with the expansion. I can imagine that has brought a lot of conflicts, and have heard about many of those which reached the news papers. Also, I did not know you had issues where you live now. It seem like a rather calm area, I have barely seen any life around there when we came for visits. :\ It is a shame there has to be disagreements like that...

[sayh]

Our area is a very calm area, until some teens decide to spend the entire night at the skate board ramp, or take their motorbikes for a "spin" around the school area.

To give you an answer, no, your request are not unreasonable. But these are house builders we talk about. They have a reputation of being irresponsible. Not long ago it was in the newspaper about this guy who got his view blocked by a big apartment building, but was granted no compensation by Selvaag. This guy had a tree in his garden long before the apartment building was built. Now, Selvaag is demanding that he removes the tree, or pays a huge compensation, as the tree is blocking view from apartments.

But I hope you manage to get some changes done so it will not be so dang close to your house. I noticed just HOW tight things were built in your area. Given just HOW MUCH SPACE is there, I do not understand why this is desirable. I see it so many places. You can see the older places with nice space between houses, and new, where houses are so tight together. If they plan to build 150 new houses, it should be some "air" between them, or else the area is going to feel just too cramped!

Good luck!

[etath]

Greedy builders.. Only money on their mind. >_<

And yeah, it is very cramped here with houses. We need the forest here to give us space. Also the people who live inside the loop of Kalkbrennerveien agree that they need the forest there, and in the very least the forest path to remain intact. And to be honest, I think that any people who would buy property in the new housing area would also prefer some air between the houses. I can not see anyone would enjoy having their property crammed up against ours, when we only got 4 metres from our wall to property border.

Thank you, mean while I will try to keep hope up. :)