Wondering whether your interior apartment renovation needs community approval in Catalonia? Spanish Horizontal Property Law (LPH Art. 7.1) and the Catalan Civil Code (CCCat Art. 553-39) draw a clear line: purely interior works on non-structural elements are free, but any work touching a common element — structural walls, facades, terraces, or shared installations — requires community authorisation.

The most common grey area is the open-plan kitchen: if the dividing wall is non-structural (partition wall), no community permit is needed. If it is a load-bearing wall, it is a common element and community approval is mandatory — along with a technical report from a qualified architect and the relevant municipal building licence.

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