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Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) are a new system of spatial strategies for nature, covering the whole of England. A LNRS will be produced for Gloucestershire by the County Council with lots of help from the Local Nature Partnership members as well as anyone with an interest in our natural environment.

All of Gloucestershire's district and county local authorities and the LNP have worked together to develop Interim guidance on delivering biodiversity net gain for planning applicants and developers in Gloucestershire.

The Gloucestershire Tree Strategy has been co-created by many partners of the LNP to guide a strategic, joined-up, best practice approach to tree planting and woodland creation in Gloucestershire.

Each May everyone is invited to get out in the natural environment to help their physical and mental health and wellbeing as part of Naturally Healthy Month which runs across the South West LNPs.

Making the most of the European Rural Development Fund by supporting applications from our partners across Gloucestershire.

Whilst the BAP ceased to be in 2012, the last iteration from 2000 has been archived here. The framework was subsumed by the GLNP as Nature Map, which is now being reworked into the new Nature Recovery Network.

Barnwood Trust ran an innovative action learning training programme for Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership organisations during 2023, on accessibility, inclusion and social justice to help improve access to nature.  See video: 

https://youtu.be/SnujnAT7wCw (image: @annarickardsart)

Thanks to a significant investment of £100,000 from Gloucestershire NHS Integrated Care Board, Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership has made grants to enable three organisations to deliver green social prescribing projects to address health inequalities.

Supporting the inception and development of this new national benchmark for the implementation of high-quality green infrastructure.

We are developing a map which will show the relative value of Natural Capital in the county, and where opportunities exist to enhance ecosystem services. 

Landscape-scale initiatives aimed to ensure land is used sustainably to achieve multiple benefits for people, wildlife and the local economy. 

We hosted a partnership workshop in response to the Glos2050 Vision. We collated many opinions and ideas to create a new vision - a Green Gloucestershire fit for the future.

GLNP and GFirst LEP are establishing a fund to leveage investment in natural solutions to the ecological and climate emergencies. Delivering off-site biodiversity net gain, and helping local authorities and businesses get to net zero, while enhancing quality of life and the resilience of our wonderful county.

As part of supporting Defra to deliver the 25 Year Environmental Plan locally, Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust have produced a local Nature Recovery Network map which shows spatial distribution of habitats connectivity, resilience and opportunity for enhancement.

The LNP is working closely with partners to explore the value, location and purpose of designating the Severn Vale a Regional Park. 

Green infrastructure is a network of multi-functional green space and other green features, urban and rural, which can deliver quality of life and environmental benefits for communities. Covid has highlighted the importance of this for our health and wellbeing.

A strategic approach to showing the best places to maintain and extend terrestrial habitats at a county scale. A spatial tool for Planners and Local Authorities.