Services d'urbanisme – Planning assistance for area development for flaum protection for Lærdalsøyri

Langue originale : anglais

Background Lærdalsøyri is the municipal centre in Lærdal municipality and it is subject to flaum from Lærdalselvi. Lærdal municipality shall, in cooperation with the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE), prepare an area development plan for total flaum protection for Lærdalsøyri. Lærdal municipality is the contracting authority and responsible for preparing the development plan. Bromwich has, on behalf of NVE, prepared a moglegheits study for heil-friendly protection of Lærdalsøyri against flaum disposals in Lærdalselvi. The study shows that it is mogleg to sikra Lærdalsøyri against flaum, but that this require encompassing measures on both sides of the river over a larger geographical area. The measures must be ready for planning before they can be engineered and executed. The planning work in question does not include the protection, but also the area necessary for access, construction, rigging, operation, inspection and future maintenance. The planning work must take inspections of the existing buset, industrial works subject, agriculture, infrastructure, landscape, natural values, cultural environment and other interests within and in the local area of the plan area. A plan programme has been prepared for area development. The planning programme was subject to public inspections in the period 22.10.-21.12.2025, and was set by the municipal council on 10 September 2026. The plan programme will set guidelines for the planning process, the implementation, alternatives that shall be assessed and impact assessment as well as the implementation work that shall be carried out. The planning work shall be carried out in close cooperation between Lærdal municipality, NVE, the supplier and other relevant authorities and interested parties. The objective of the assignment The aim of the assignment is to get professional assistance to prepare a complete area development plan for total flaum protection for Lærdalsøyri. The area development plan shall: Clarify the area use for relevant flaum protection measures. Necessary area for the establishment, access, construction, rigging, operation and maintenance of the initiative. Clarify relationship with existing and planned land use Assessed the works for the environment and community Provide a sufficient basis for further detailed engineering design services and execution. Contribute to a dispenser and verifiable plan process. Facilitate co-work with basic entrepreneurs, inhabitants, businesses, organisations and public authorities. Tenderers shall have professional co-ordination between the different parts of the planning work. There shall be decipherable and substantiated consistency between the disciplines, impact assessment, risk and vulnerable lift analysis, the plan chart, the zoning guidelines and the plan review. NVE works parallel to the preliminary project, and it is expected that the supplier cooperates closely with NVE to sikra consistency between the municipality and NVE's planning work.