What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?

Part 1 of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy “What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?” presents:

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
  • influences local planning
  • influences planning decisions
  • influences 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