Technical support – National Land Consolidation Office

As part of the land consolidation process in the municipalities of Wiltz, Wincrange, Kiischpelt and Winseler, the Office National du Remembrement (ONR) is planning to maintain, partially renovate and extend the network of forest roads in the Eschweiler-West area. The aim is to adapt the roads for efficient timber transport by lorry. A total of 41 km of existing roads will be rebuilt and 7.4 km of new roads will be constructed, increasing the total length of the road network to 48.4 km.

LSC360 was commissioned to prepare documentation for various environmental procedures (EIA, Natura 2000, nature conservation permit). The focus was in particular on developing a new assessment approach for the project’s life cycle assessment in consultation with the Administration de la Nature et des Forêts (ANF, Nature and Forestry Administration). Such an approach did not previously exist in this form and is therefore a first in Luxembourg. The ONR also commissioned LSC360 to provide technical support in order to be able to respond quickly to questions or specific tasks related to environmental procedures.

General technical support in the environmental field:
• Contact person and advisor to ONR managers
• Assessment of projects and specification of environmental procedures to be taken into account
• Assessment of the feasibility of projects

Conducting a screening EIA:
• Preparation of a dossier with an assessment of the impact of the planned adjustments
on the forest road network (including mitigation measures).

Conducting a Natura 2000 assessment:
• Assessing the potential impact on the protected areas concerned

Preparing application documents for nature conservation permits:
• Assessing the impact on the protection of biotopes, species and protected areas
• Preparing the ecological balance sheet
• Planning the necessary mitigation and compensation measures