Local Nature Recovery Strategy Overview

Join an upcoming stakeholder engagement workshop in March or April 2024 to convey your views on what nature should look like in the future in Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes. You do not need to be a nature expert to join, we are interested in gathering everyone’s thoughts and ideas to help shape the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

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Download an FAQs sheet with more information about the LNRS or read about it below.

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What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) were introduced in the Environment Act 2021. This new system
of spatial strategies will:

  1. Support efforts to recover nature across England
  2. Help planning authorities
  3. Incorporate nature recovery objectives
  4. Support the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain
  5. Help deliver our national environment targets

The Government has now published LNRS regulations and statutory guidance which work together to
establish the ‘rules’ to enable high quality and consistent LNRSs to be prepared across England.

These are plans that will help drive more coordinated, practical, focussed action and investment to help nature and people flourish together, whilst delivering wider nature-based environmental benefits. They will consist of:

  • A Statement of Biodiversity Priorities, which reflect stakeholder priorities for environmental outcomes, and the actions that need to be undertaken to achieve these outcomes.
  • A Local Habitat Map, which will identify the existing distribution of habitats and the location of areas already important for biodiversity, overlaid by locations considered suitable for delivering the outcomes and actions identified by stakeholders.

The NEP, commissioned by the Responsible Authority of Buckinghamshire Council and supporting Milton Keynes City Council, is the project manager for the LNRS development process for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes.

Previously, Buckinghamshire (not including Milton Keynes) was part of a Defra pilot to understand how best to develop LNRSs. For more details on the specific steps of the pilot, please download the Buckinghamshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy Pilot Overview document.

If you have a specific query, please email lnrs@buckinghamshire.gov.uk.

Learn more about how and why you should get involved!

Listen to our Introductory Webinars on the LNRS!

This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for FARMERS AND LANDOWNERS, including opportunities for getting involved.
This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for NGOs, including opportunities for getting involved.
This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for RESIDENTS OF THE AREA, including opportunities for getting involved.
This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for TOWN & PARISH COUNCILS, including opportunities for getting involved.
This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for PROPERTY DEVELOPERS, including opportunities for getting involved.
This introductory webinar provides information on the Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes LNRS for BUSINESSES, including opportunities for getting involved.

Click to download Key Documents

Buckinghamshire Pilot Draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Buckinghamshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy Pilot Overview
A Summary of Buckinghamshire's Nature
Slides from the introductory webinar