Topic Zone

The 'Topic Zone' part of this Guide presents more detailed information in relation to a number of key issues or themes that will influence the planning process of large development projects.

Each Topic Paper illustrates a range of issues that need to be considered and addressed, together with advice on how best to go about this. It is based upon the experience of the Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS) in assisting the public and private sectors in bringing forward live development proposals, and also includes references to other key organisations/documents that contain useful information. Stakeholders will need to consider this advice with reference to their own particular circumstances. It is not intended to be either prescriptive or definitive, and hence should be flexed to fit different project needs and circumstances.

At present, a number of key topic papers are available through this website. The ATLAS team are in the process of working up additional topic papers to address other key issues and will incorporated these onto the website. Other topics will be covered in the future and uploaded to this website. If you want to be notified of when these pages go live please register and save the relevant pages to your personal folder.

Please contact us directly (via the feedback form or contact us links above) with suggestions for other areas that you feel should be covered by this website.