Berkshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy

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Now is a really exciting time for nature.



We need to think about where Berkshire nature needs our help the most and how people can benefit from giving nature a hand. Help us decide.

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) are spatial strategies to recover nature across England: part of the 2021 Environment Act. Together, they will cover the country in a Nature Recovery Network (NRN).

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are excited to be the Responsible Authority (RA) for our Berkshire LNRS. Bracknell, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire and Wokingham are supporting authorities with Natural England. They are helping to contribute to the strategy. Updates on the progress of the LNRS are posted below.


Visualisation of stakeholder views on Berkshire Nature Recovery. Credits to Natalie Ganpatsingh.


Each LNRS will map areas of current particular importance for biodiversity, and work with partners from many groups, from landowners to businesses, to eNGOs, and the public. Priorities for nature recovery will be agreed and these will be used to create a local habitat map. These will depict what needs to happen to achieve the agreed aims for nature. This will link up with delivery mechanisms, such as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for planning and Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes for land management including farming.


Find a blog here from Natural England for more information on Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

Now is a really exciting time for nature.



We need to think about where Berkshire nature needs our help the most and how people can benefit from giving nature a hand. Help us decide.

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) are spatial strategies to recover nature across England: part of the 2021 Environment Act. Together, they will cover the country in a Nature Recovery Network (NRN).

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead are excited to be the Responsible Authority (RA) for our Berkshire LNRS. Bracknell, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire and Wokingham are supporting authorities with Natural England. They are helping to contribute to the strategy. Updates on the progress of the LNRS are posted below.


Visualisation of stakeholder views on Berkshire Nature Recovery. Credits to Natalie Ganpatsingh.


Each LNRS will map areas of current particular importance for biodiversity, and work with partners from many groups, from landowners to businesses, to eNGOs, and the public. Priorities for nature recovery will be agreed and these will be used to create a local habitat map. These will depict what needs to happen to achieve the agreed aims for nature. This will link up with delivery mechanisms, such as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) for planning and Environmental Land Management (ELM) schemes for land management including farming.


Find a blog here from Natural England for more information on Local Nature Recovery Strategies.

  • 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.


    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. (add link). 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 Layer/(APIB) -The places across Berkshire that are already great for wildlife – these are important to continue to protect – Baseline Map
    2. The Opportunity Layer (ACB) -Where nature recovery has been proposed – the most important and likely successful places across the county to start recovering nature
    3. The Actions Layer (PM) – 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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