Local Nature Recovery Strategy

How the LNRS will be used

What the LNRS will be used for

The LNRS identifies potential areas that will enable focused activities and funding opportunities. These are the best places where we can maximise nature recovery and wider environmental benefits.

 It will be used as a decision-making tool to help guide Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and other planning tools. Farmers and land managers can use the LNRS to help understand the opportunities for nature recovery on their land. 

The LNRS could create local opportunities for businesses to achieve their Environment Social Governance (SEG) objectives.

Everyone can help nature thrive and encourage wildlife across West Northamptonshire. We want to encourage everyone to be involved and foster a sense of local ownership, responsibility, and appreciation of nature.

Priorities and potential measures

Working with many local partners and representatives in the LNRS development is vital to ensuring that it is an inclusive process, based on best available evidence, and benefits from local knowledge. 

We will engage with a wide range of participants such as landowners, farmers, estates, churches, parishes, and businesses to identify the priorities and measures for West Northamptonshire to reflect our locality. 

This will be achieved through stakeholder engagement workshops, public online surveys, landowner and estate activities, and engagement through other events.

Engagement activities can be found on the Nene River Trust LNRS webpage. 

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Changes to land

The LNRS is a tool to identify the best opportunities for nature recovery and any changes are optional. No-one will be obliged or forced to change their land through the LNRS. The LNRS intends to help farmers and land managers to better decide if there are actions for nature recovery that they could undertake. 

We acknowledge that landowners understand their land and the wildlife it contains. Therefore, we’d like to listen and offer you to share your knowledge through various upcoming engagement activities.

There is a Land Manager Survey published on the Nene River Trust LNRS webpage for you to use to express your views. All inputs from any engagement activities will help to shape and inform the strategy.

Local nature recovery strategies can also enable land managers to work better together with joined-up actions helping to improve landscape connectivity.

Last updated 03 June 2024