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Cottage settlements

Planning of settlements in general and planning of cottage settlements in particular are very big and not easy tasks. And the implementation of cottage settlements planning can be fulfilled only by powerful architectural organizations. And it can not be otherwise, because cottage settlements planning is not simply a cottage planning attached to the environment. The purpose of cottage settlements planning is the creation of the detailed plans of housing complexes, reflecting all nuances of general aesthetic idea and all subtleties of engineering.

Cottage settlement planning begins with making up of a conception. This stage of cottage settlements’ planning is not the biggest, it rarely takes designers more than three or four weeks, but it is nearly the most important. A cottage settlement conception, as an initial phase of cottage settlements planning, is free enough by form and it appears to be pictures, charts, model constructions, giving a clear picture about the look of the structures being designed and of adjoining territories. It is necessary not only for further successful planning of cottage settlement but also for presenting it to the local administration. It can be a subject for discussion when drafting the investment plans. Getting all-round approval, it will become a basis for creation of a general layout of a settlement. As well as in the individual cottage planning, so is in the settlements’ planning, the general layout drafting is the longest, the most difficult and responsible stage. General layout (while planning cottage settlements) can take a few months. Its drafts are made at the high professional level and in strict accordance with state standards and building norms and rules. When drafting the general layout within the framework of cottage settlements planning all necessary concordances are accomplished, what takes away the lion's share of temporal expenses.

Thorough planning of cottage settlements implies improvement of motorways. It is the next stage of project works. Further, when planning cottage settlements, drafting of the engineering communications’ plan follows, it is not a simple task, especially when making water discharge; actually architectural planning, landscape design, special sections. So, it is evident, that for cottage settlements planning, a large crew of competent specialists is necessary. Not every project organization, not every architectural bureau will cope with the tasks of cottage settlements’ planning in the most appropriate way, as the use of some model projects in the planning of settlements, and especially in the cottage planning, is next to impossible. Because the basic sense of cottage settlements’ planning is the creation of original, stylish, aesthetically attractive environment for dwelling. The mentioned qualities of settlements planning must stimulate liquidity of dwelling cottages in the most positive way, what is rather difficult to achieve in modern conditions while realizing model projects.

A special role in planning cottage settlements belongs to the creation of engineering networks and communications. And if the options of problem solution for water-supply, electrification, connection, heating etc. when cottage settlements’ planning are not too numerous, and their estimate cost is more or less permanent size (in relation to the total cost of building), the choice of sewage optimum requires very careful working out. There is a great number of factors that influence this aspect of settlement planning, the amount of methods that can solve problems in this sphere is also quite considerable, but only a precisely thought-out decision will help competent planning of cottage settlements. Water discharge - if to apply it to cottage settlements’ planning - is able to influence substantially the cost of a housing complex erection, not to speak of direct dependence of comfort of dwelling on the continuity of the sewage system work. In theory it is possible to suppose the simplified decision of problems of the engineer support when planning cottage settlements, but how to distinguish dacha co-operative planning and cottage settlements’ planning then? And the demand for similar structures at the real estate market becomes lower and lower.

The whole cottage settlement planning is a work which can be coped with only by a few companies out of a great number of project organizations of the country. The investor, who has made his decision about building a cottage on a plot of land, had better to deal with the complex cottage settlement planning. Otherwise, its existence will be complicated by long concordances. It will certainly reflect not only on the total cost of cottage settlement planning but also on the size of expenses for building, and in the end – on profitability of separate cottages and other objects in the settlement. It is better to entrust cottage settlement planning to real professionals!

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