Episode 2 | The building turbo

Dr. Maximilian Dombert | Dr. Dominik Lück

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07.05.2026

Episode 2 - The construction turbo: Housing construction between federal law and municipal planning sovereignty 

 

There is a consensus that Germany is building too little. With the so-called „construction turbo“, the federal legislator has created an instrument that is intended to allow deviations from the Building Code in order to accelerate housing construction. Sounds like a big hit. Is it?

Dominik Lück and Maximilian Dombert explain what the construction turbo actually regulates: Exemptions from development plans, exceptions to the insertion requirement, new noise protection rules - and why all of this only works if the local authorities play along. Because the centrepiece remains the requirement for approval from the local authority: nothing works without it.


For local authorities, people interested in building law and anyone who wants to know why a Federal Chancellor cannot force anyone to build in Germany.

The nucleus of democracy - municipal law with Dombert & Lück

 

Municipal law in an understandable, practical way and without paragraph-by-paragraph: In this podcast, the lawyers and specialist lawyers for administrative law speak Dr. Dominik Lück and Dr. Maximilian Dombert on the legal issues that cities, municipalities and municipal companies deal with on a daily basis.

 

As partners in the law firm Dombert Rechtsanwälte, they have been advising local authorities at the interface of law, politics and administration for many years. In their talks, they take you into their everyday professional lives, discuss current developments in municipal law and explain complex topics in such a way that they remain understandable even without a legal background.

 

This is because many of the major social issues are decided locally: Building and infrastructure projects, healthcare, the environment, schools, housing and municipal companies. It is precisely here - in the cities and municipalities - that the nucleus of democracy lies.

The podcast is aimed at local authorities, municipal companies, politicians and anyone who wants to understand how the law works at municipal level.

 

A podcast about local law, administration and politics - understandable, practical and with a look behind the scenes of municipal decision-making processes.

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