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Prepare the next useful question.

Enter what you know once. Take an enquiry, specialist brief or Council response back to your own documents.

Keep your work

Save a project file to resume later. Entries stay in this tab until you copy or download them; nothing is saved automatically.

The file contains your entered information. Keep it somewhere appropriate for your project.

Choose the help you need

Start with the uncertainty holding up your decision. There is no fixed order.

Records you can gather

Gather the proposal, current records and any Council letter. Identify what is already established and the one question blocking your next decision.

Who can resolve the gap?

Use public records for established information. Ask the relevant authority about its requirements and a suitably qualified professional about a site or technical question.

Draft for

Use the authority’s required form or enquiry service where applicable. An informal reply is not an approval.

A suburb is enough for an early draft. Add the property address for site-specific advice.

Describe the outcome and proposed work. A rough concept is useful; label it as a concept.

Record measured, drawing-based or approximate values. Leave unmeasured facts unknown.

Copy the full control names and schedule numbers, plus the report date.

Name the records checked and their dates. Write “not checked” if you do not have them.

Use existing records. A visible pit or pipe does not establish its location or requirements.

List file names, dates and drawing revisions. Attach the actual records when you send the enquiry.

For example: which report would establish whether this concept is feasible?

An easement, pipe or pit can require a separate owner or beneficiary enquiry even when it is absent from the title. Distance alone is not clearance.

Open the records and official sources

Check the current version and relevant passage. A linked source does not establish that a rule applies to your site.

Your draft

Review before sending and attach any records you listed. This draft does not determine permit eligibility or replace the assessment a professional or authority must make.