Land consolidation is an investment. First phase of investment process is adequate preparatory and planning. Elaboration of paper „guidelines for land consolidation project" is enough according to land consolidation act. The thesis of present paper is following: in case of rural arrangement plan there is for the land consolidation area, we can use selected conclusions when we work out guide-lines for land consolidation project. The thematic range of rural arrangement plan is wider. So we should use existing papers and plans. The result of study is identi-fication of common topics. ...