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name: planning-check
description: Read the planning controls and flag exactly where a scheme is non-compliant. Use as an early pre-check to structure the conversation with the authority, not as planning advice.
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# Planning Check

## What it does
Structures the planning and constraint questions for a site and tests a scheme against them: zone, overlays, height, setbacks, coverage, parking, heritage, flood. A first-pass read that shows where to look, not a determination.

## When to use
- Early feasibility, to price planning risk honestly.
- Before lodgement, to catch obvious non-compliances.

## Instructions
1. Ask for the site and jurisdiction, and the applicable controls if known.
2. For each control: the requirement, the scheme's value, and a first-pass compliant / non-compliant / verify read, with exactly where to confirm it.
3. Never state a control as settled fact. Point to the map or clause to check.
4. List red flags that could stop the project and the consultants to engage.

## Output format
A control-by-control table (requirement | scheme | read | where to verify), then a short list of red flags.

## The one mistake to avoid
Treating the output as a compliance ruling. It structures the questions; the planning authority stays the source of truth.