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Berkshire LNRS Public Consultation

Background: 

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) are an important tool to assist in nature recovery across England and are required under the Environment Act 2021.  There are 48 LNRSs covering the whole of England, with no overlapping strategies and no areas left uncovered. The strategy areas align with England’s 48 local government administered counties.  Local Nature Recovery Strategies are a platform for local people to agree the key priorities for recovering nature in their area and recommend the actions required to help achieve these priorities.  The actions will also bring about wider environmental benefits by utilising nature-based solutions to tackle issues such as flooding, carbon emissions and poor water quality in rivers and streams.  They will be practical and achievable and will be directed at locations where they will have the greatest impact on nature recovery. The strategies will be delivered by local partners on the ground, be these community groups, landowners or land managers, who will be able to use existing sources of public and private funding to help implement nature recovery actions.


This survey will close on the Monday 
The survey should take approximately 15 minutes to complete.
We will use the information you provide to inform the development of the Berkshire Nature Recovery Strategy.
All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.

Any questions or problems? Get in touch with us via bnc@rbwm.gov.uk or 01628 777440. 
If you would prefer a hard copy of this survey, these can be found at most libraries across Windsor and Maidenhead. Please ask at reception. 

For more information on our Berkshire LNRS check out our website:
https://rbwmtogether.rbwm.gov.uk/berkshire-local-nature-recovery-strategy

For more information on data processing please see below:
https://www.rbwm.gov.uk/home/council-and-democracy/strategies-and-policies/data-protection/privacy-notice-planning-policy-consultations-and-call-sites

 

Before completing this survey:

The aim of this Public Consultation is to obtain the views of the public on the draft Berkshire LNRS. It is important that you read some or all of the documents comprising the LNRS before completing this survey. Find a link to the Berkshire LNRS draft strategy here. (). The documents to review are: 

The Description of Berkshire 
The Species Shortlist
The list of Priorities and Potential Measures
The interactive Opportunity Map

The Opportunity Map comprises the following three layers 

  1. The Baseline Habitat Layer/APIB (Areas of Potential Importance for Biodiversity-The places across Berkshire that are already great for wildlife – these are important to continue to protect – Baseline Map
  2. The Opportunity Layer ACB (Areas that could become of Potential Importance for Biodiversity) -Where nature recovery has been proposed – the most important and likely successful places across the county to start recovering nature
  3. The Measures Layer (Potential actions for Biodiversity) – The actions that should take place in these areas

Jump to the map here (add link).  

Priorities - the end results that the strategy is seeking to achieve

Actions – (Also sometimes known as ‘Measures’), These are specific practical actions to achieve our priorities. They can benefit a particular species or habitat or provide wider environmental benefits (nature-based solutions).

Important information about this Public Consultation:

The baseline map: Due to a long period of engagement in spring 2024 finding out



We are asking these questions because it is useful for us to know who we are hearing from. This information helps us to understand if the feedback we get is representative of the whole comunnity or if there are some gaps. It also helps us to see if there are differences in people's  views or experiences based on characteristics like their age or gender. 

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1.  

Review the Description of Area for Berkshire in the Consultation Draft. Are you happy that this is clear and accurate?

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Review the Opportunities for Berkshire in the Consultation Draft. Are you happy that this is clear and accurate?

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1. Improve the quality of general agriculture and the wider countryside.
2. Improve the condition of woodland
3. Improve the condition of wood pasture parkland
4. Improve connectivity of wood pasture
5. Buffer and connect ancient woodland in Berkshire to protect from external pressures and fragmentation
6. Increase the extent of wet woodland to increase patch size and connectivity
7. Improve the quality of chalk habitats
8. Improve the quality of urban biodiversity
9. Increase UK ward canopy cover to 30% in urban areas to mitigate impacts of climate change and increase connectivity of greenspaces
10. Increase the extent and improve the quality of wetlands and floodplain
11. Obtain good chalk stream management (extend Sparkling Streams initiatives)
12. Increase the extent and improve the quality of heath

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Review the Actions for nature recovery in the Consultation Draft. Are you happy that these is clear and accurate?

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Review the distributions of Actions for Nature Recovery. Are you happy they are in the most important locations for Berkshire? For information on how the sites were chosen, click here. (add link)

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Review the Species Shortlist and Priorities in the Consultation Draft. Are you happy that these is clear and accurate?

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Please review the Opportunity Map. Are you happy that this is clear to view?


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How have you previously engaged with the Berkshire Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Please select all that apply. 

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