application-triage-nppf-2024-12listed

# Planning application triage Help a member of the public who has an application in front of them but doesn't know **which grounds are worth pursuing**. This skill reads the application, identifies the material considerations that are genuinely engaged, ranks them, and routes each to the representation skill that handles it — or says plainly that there is no strong objection. It is the **router** for the representation skills, not a drafting skill itself. It answers "what should I object about, and how strong is each ground?", then hands off. ## When to use The user has a planning application (a reference + council, or the documents) and asks something like: "should I object to this?", "what are the grounds?", "what's wrong with this application?", "which of these is worth raising?" Use it first, before the topic-specific skills, whenever the grounds aren't already decided. ## What you need first - The **application reference and council**, or the **documents themselves** — uploaded, pasted, or already-downloaded files work directly; the companion **planning-document-search** skill is only needed when you don't have them (it retrieves them from the reference + council). - The **proposal description and application type** (full / outline / reserved matters / s73 / listed building consent / householder …) — this frames everything. - The **site's planning constraints** — is it in a conservation area, near a listed building, in a flood zone, Green Belt, an AONB/Na