live in a tiny house in Amsterdam?
It is almost a luxury to have a roof over your head in Amsterdam. The tightness in the housing market is worse than ever. That is why more and more people see it for themselves: living in a small house. Is it your dream to build a mini palace and actually live in it? Then you have to know whether it is allowed at all. And if so, where. We looked it up for you!
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Firstly, it is useful to know how big such a small house can actually be. a small house has a maximum area of 50 square meters. The size is usually around 28 square meters. So very small! But not exactly smaller than the ‘cheaper’ studio in the center of Amsterdam.
And?!
The big question: can you have a in Amsterdam? small house place and live in it? Nika Haspels of the Municipality of Amsterdam explains: “Due to the limited space in Amsterdam and the high demand for homes, we make the best possible use of the available space. That’s why we develop high-density areas, generally in projects. Making land available for example small houses we don’t do that, because that requires a lot of space.”
Understandable. On a piece of land where about ten small houses can be built, the municipality can also build a block of flats with a hundred apartments. The more the merrier. So unfortunately no small houses in Amsterdam.
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There is a little ‘but’. No ground is being cleared for small houses, but you can a small house maybe on your own land. Namely: in your own backyard. Nika explains: “You need a permit to build a small house in your backyard because you have applied for a house. This is different from, for example, a shed that can be placed without a permit in certain cases. Whether the permit permits depends on the application and the district. In a city district, for example, there is no cooperation on the center of small houses in the backyard.”
So if you really really like one small house If you want to put down in Amsterdam, you just have to look at the people of Amsterdam with a large backyard.