Statement of biodiversity priorities and measures

The Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy outlines the priorities for nature recovery and the proposed actions to deliver these.

These priorities apply the Lawton principles of better, bigger, more and joined up.  The priorities fall under a framework of ten ambitions, reflecting the broad and fabulous range of habitats we have in the county.

From this page you can view all the Strategy ambitions online and read the priorities and potential measures underpinning them.  They are also presented in the Strategy documents.

Understanding the priorities and measures of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy

The Local Nature Recovery Strategy is a set of agreed priorities for Kent and Medway’s nature recovery, with spatially framed potential measures to deliver them.

A priority is the outcome we want to see for nature.

A potential measure is the proposed action to deliver the priority. They must be practical and achievable. It is only potential measures that are eligible for the biodiversity net gain strategic significance uplift – and only when those potential measures are delivered in the areas they have been mapped to.

A wider measure is a proposed action for a priority, which would be similarly beneficial over wide areas or those where it was not possible to determine specific locations to carry out the proposed action. Collectively, these wider measures identify areas of additional opportunities for nature recovery but do not form a part of the formal Strategy’s local habitat map and are not eligible for the biodiversity net gain strategic significance uplift – this only applies to potential measures.