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Thanks Whale
Yeah. I thought it was safe to assume that the walls that are physically common, or effect anyone else, are common, regardless of the line.
The shoe box analogy is good – but in the case of 2 storey townhouses gets complicated because the floor between storeys is common, as is the stairs so its harder to imagine.
Your suggestion about informing the EC or OC about any alterations regardless if they need approval or which kind of approval, seems to me to be only good neighbourly behaviour in the case that they don’t and the legal thing to do if they do. But it seems that once things are mentioned at a meeting no one can decide what to do and tend to postpone a decision. So if one wants to continue being polite or legal one then needs to keep asking to have the matter on the next agenda and wait…a lot.
I was hoping that a clear strata plan would be able to be used as a guide to which internal walls require OC approval to touch, and which not. I hadn’t considered your point that even things within the owners airspace could effect others because of noise, obstruction during works etc. But even if the question could be narrowed down to being about those issues (and not about what is common property) it would be a clarification and aid in helping get decisions made.
But it is not to be.
Which leads me to another question about how to decide what kind of approval is needed for different alterations. But I will start another thread rather than branch off, so don’t answer here.