What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?
Part 1 of the Strategy provides the background to the document – its purpose, how it will inform nature recovery and how it was developed.
Contents of “What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?”
- Background to the Local Nature Recovery – why the Strategy has been developed.
- Purpose of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy – what the Strategy provides, what it intends to do and what it does not do.
- Understanding the elements of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy – the statutory elements of the Strategy and what they provide.
- Informing nature recovery in Kent and Medway – how the Strategy directs action for nature and influences local planning, planning decisions and biodiversity net gain
5. Development of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy – outlining how the Strategy was developed, including:
- The collaborative framework for development
- Identification of the pressures on and challenges for nature
- Agreeing the priorities for nature recovery in Kent and Medway
- Developing the potential measures that would deliver the nature recovery priorities
- Mapping the potential measures
- Creating the local habitat map
- Identifying the Strategy’s priority species


