flood-representation-nppf-2024-12listed

# Flood-risk representation on a planning application Help a member of the public produce a rigorous, credible representation on the **flood-risk and drainage** merits of a planning application. The skill does three things: 1. **Evaluate** the applicant's flood-risk and drainage evidence against current national policy and guidance, and identify the material deficiencies. 2. **Map** each deficiency to the specific policy, test and guidance it engages. 3. **Draft** the representation in clear, precise, concise language — or advise that the evidence is sound and no sustainable objection exists. ## When to use The user has a planning application and wants to object, or find out whether they can, on flood-risk or drainage grounds — the Sequential/Exception Tests, an inadequate or missing Flood Risk Assessment, increased flood risk elsewhere, surface-water/foul drainage, or sustainable drainage (SuDS). Trigger phrases: "object on flood grounds", "is this Flood Risk Assessment adequate", "this will flood my property / make flooding worse", "they haven't done a sequential test", "the drainage isn't sustainable." Not this skill: ecology, transport, heritage, general amenity — separate matters. ## 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 th