Local Authorities across the country are preparing Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS).

These strategies are a requirement of the Environment Act (2021), and will be important in setting the framework for future conservation. In particular they will guide where Government schemes for wildlife are targeted. Local Authorities are required to consider these strategies when they prepare new Local Plans too.

The development of LNRSs is being carried out in different ways in each county, and in Northamptonshire there will be two strategies, one for each of the relatively newly formed Unitary Authorities. However, they are being produced to a standard framework.

Each LNRS will involve public survey at two key stages. Initially there will be a survey about local priorities. There will then be a survey on the draft strategy, which will include maps setting out where there are known to be key wildlife sites, and where future conservation activity should be focussed.

The Wildlife Trust will be engaging with the development of the LNRSs throughout our region, but we would also encourage the public to engage where they can too. We will update this page with links to the relevant surveys as they take place.