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

We are working with local partners and representatives in the LNRS development, particularly to identify the priorities and potential measures. This has been vital to ensuring that this has been an inclusive process, based on best available evidence, and benefited from local knowledge. 

We have and will continue to engage with a wide range of participants such as landowners, farmers, estates, churches, parishes, and businesses across West Northamptonshire to reflect our locality. 

We have achieved this communication through stakeholder engagement workshops, public online surveys, landowner and estate activities, and engagement through other events. All inputs from the engagement activities have helped to shape and inform the strategy. 

Our previous engagement activities can be found on the Nene River Trust LNRS webpage. 

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. We would like to listen and offer you the chance to share your knowledge through various upcoming engagement activities.

LNRSs can also enable land managers to work better together with joined-up actions helping to improve landscape connectivity.

Last updated 15 October 2024