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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.

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Contents of “What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?” 

  1. Background to the Local Nature Recovery – why the Strategy has been developed.
  2. Purpose of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy – what the Strategy provides, what it intends to do and what it does not do.
  3. Understanding the elements of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy – the statutory elements of the Strategy and what they provide.
  4. 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