Hi
Council made me do adjoining protection works with my neibour but I have decided to build 200mm off the fence and the neibours house is atleast 900 away from his fence so atleast 1100 between both house so do we still need protection works??

I’m having serious trouble hearing back from the council and hopefully someone here can shed some light

For my new build if my house is atleast 1 metre away from the neibours house is protection work no longer needed?

Or if my house is less then a metre away from the fence line it is needed?

Or does it only count for the distance between house walls?
Does the fence have nothing to do with it?

Country Victoria

Thanks