the Sun is as a veil over Nybyggets facility in Arlandastad, sweden. Here are a variety of show houses and waiting for visitors.

found a house that has attracted Anders Wedins attention. He is one of the many swedes who are interested in building attefallshus.

– My brother has a attefallare which he uses as a guest house when his children greet him. And personally, I would like to use it as a vacation home, when my daughters come to visit, ” he says.

A house that attracts on Anders Wedin. Photo: Erik Ardelius

in 2017, launched a government investigation into whether new rules for the attefallshus, on the basis of the proposal to increase the maximum byggarean from 25 to 30 square meters. The board believes that if the building area is changed, the houses become a ”more attractive accommodation option for more”.

in the day that neighbours can appeal against the construction of the attefallhus. But a judgment from the Land and environmental court of appeal has ruled that it is a violation of the european Convention on human rights to deny a neighbor the right to appeal if a building would mean an inconvenience for her.

Anders Wedin is one of several swedes who are attracted by building a attefallshus. ”I think five extra square feet would mean a lot,” he says of the government’s proposed changes to the rules. Photo: Erik Ardelius

Anders Wedin is basically sympathetic to this.

– Overall, I think it is good that a neighbor has something to say in this kind of questions. I live in a bostadsrättsradhusområde where neighbors for a while then sat up conservatories without question the neighbors. It can be fatal for even the patios, it can spoil the view and reduce prices, ” he says.

gets the current for him to build a attefallshus he stresses that in advance would tell about it to their neighbors.

“Yes, I think that it clearly is the best for good neighbourly relations to talk about their plans, despite the fact that the law looks as it does today ,” says Anders Wedin.

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