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My property?
Once the neighborhood plan has been approved, residents will receive new permits for extensions and alterations to their properties, such as to build dormer windows, balconies and extensions, increase, decrease or combine apartments in already built houses.
What can I do with my property?
Once the neighborhood plan has been approved, residents will receive new permits for extensions and alterations to their properties, such as to build dormer windows, balconies and extensions, increase, decrease or combine apartments in already built houses. With neighborhood planning, time-consuming and costly hearing notification procedures become largely unnecessary and the entire application and processing process becomes simpler and more efficient.
The neighborhood plan is, i.a. intended to facilitate any kind of construction on their property for residents. This is done by simplifying planning and building permits and improving access to information on existing planning permits.
This opens up various possibilities for homeowners to alter or build on their property. The permits can be, for example, to furnish additional apartments in houses, either by extending, dividing older spaces or converting a garage into a small apartment, where the terms allow and if the owners of multi-unit buildings want, it is possible to build a floor on top of them, with certain conditions such as that there will be an elevator in the building.
Alterations to, e.g. balconies or the construction of dormer windows will not have to go through a hearing notification procedure, as has been the case.
Guidelines for the implementation of these permits are not related to individual neighborhoods or term units, but are universal for all neighborhoods in the city that have received a neighborhood plan. Here you can see a useful overview over individual aspects and information on how to apply for and obtain a construction permit.
On certain plots, new structures with new apartments are permitted. These sources are described in the term item for new structures.
The neighborhood plan is, i.a. intended to facilitate any kind of construction on their property for residents.
All terms and rules in Hverfasjá
Once the neighborhood plan has taken effect, property owners can enter the street name and house number of their property in the so-called Hverfasjá online. The current planning provisions for the property in question can then be accessed, together with instructions on how to apply for a permit for alterations and/or improvements.
Increase in apartments in detached houses
Increasing the number of apartments in detached houses will be allowed, as well as having two apartments in large detached houses where conditions allow, as this leads to better land use and can bolster life in the neighborhood.
Image: Ydda Architects.
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Possible changes to detached houses
The image shows how to extend a detached house. New terms should simplify the procedure for changes.
Image: Tripoli Architects.
Additional apartment in detached houses
Most owners of detached houses, single-family houses, rowhouses and semi-detached houses are given permission in the neighborhood plan for extensions and modest changes to their properties. Permits will also be granted for the construction of waste shelters and other small structures on the plot, up to 10 to 15 m², in addition to which various types of finishing on the lot and lot boundaries will be provided.
It will be permitted to furnish one additional apartment in most detached houses, which may be a maximum of one third of the total size of the house. An additional apartment can be located inside the existing house, in an extension and in some cases in a garage or hut on the plot.
Authorization for an additional apartment in a detached house can enable many people to adapt the house better to their and their family’s needs, even if the family size and circumstances change. This way, some people could reside in their property for longer even though the need for rooms decreases after the children leave home. An additional apartment in their parents’ house can also be the first step for young people to living independently.
It should be emphasized that additional apartments are intended for family members or to rent out. They can not be sold separate from the main apartment and it must be possible to reunite the apartments if the owners so wish.
Single-family houses
Balconies and changes to appearance
Roof changes
Planning terms and guidelines are available online.
Elevator-free multi-unit buildings
In Reykjavík, there are thousands of apartments on the upper floors in elevator-free multi-unit buildings. Access to these apartments is more limited than usual, and they are therefore often unsuitable for people with reduced mobility or who have reached old age. As a result, many people are forced to move out of their apartments as they age or circumstances change, with associated costs and disruption. In Iceland, it is very rare that alterations have been made to these buildings to install an elevator, although this is common in the countries around us. The cost of building and operating an elevator is in most cases one of the main obstacles.
The neighborhood plan allows residents’ associations to build one extra floor on top of many elevator-free multi-unit buildings, on the condition that an elevator will be installed in the building at the same time. In an attempt to standardize work methods and procedures for such projects, the city authorities have agreed to hold a design competition for superstructures and improved access, in collaboration with the Architects Association of Iceland and Félagsbústaðir, which takes into consideration that the results of the design competition can be used in all older neighborhoods of the city, regardless of district.
A new construction right is valuable and the residents’ association can dispose of it and use the profit to finance an elevator in the building and even to carry out other maintenance for the building or lot. Improved access to apartments on the upper floors can also increase the value of the apartments and enable many people to live in their apartments for longer. Last but not least, a key point is that authorization for superstructure is a value that landowners solely own and cannot be disposed of unless there is a consensus.
The neighborhood plan allows residents’ associations to build one extra floor on top of many elevator-free multi-unit buildings, on the condition that an elevator will be installed in the building at the same time. In an attempt to standardize work methods and procedures for such projects, the city authorities have agreed to hold a design competition for superstructures and improved access, in collaboration with the Architects Association of Iceland and Félagsbústaðir, which takes into consideration that the results of the design competition can be used in all older neighborhoods of the city, regardless of district.
A new construction right is valuable and the residents’ association can dispose of it and use the profit to finance an elevator in the building and even to carry out other maintenance for the building or lot. Improved access to apartments on the upper floors can also increase the value of the apartments and enable many people to live in their apartments for longer. Last but not least, a key point is that authorization for superstructure is a value that landowners solely own and cannot be disposed of unless there is a consensus.
