About the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)

Background

In late June 2023, we were appointed by Defra as the ‘Responsible Authority (RA)’ to prepare the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for the county.

• Local nature recovery strategies describe and map important nature recovery actions developed through local engagement.
• They target actions in locations where they are most needed and where those actions could provide the best environmental outcomes as well as wider benefits.
• The strategies will help to join up national efforts to reverse the decline of biodiversity

Four key elements

The strategy contains an interactive map and documents:

• Local Habitat Map - LNRS webpages Local Habitat Map page.docx
   
• Statement of Biodiversity Priorities   - LNRS webpages Statement of Biodiversity Priorities page.docx
   
• Species Priorities List - LNRS webpages Species Priorities List page.docx
   
• Description of Strategy Area - LNRS webpages Description of Strategy Area page.docx  

Using the strategy

The strategy is a tool that you can use to help inform your decisions about nature recovery actions in Oxfordshire. The strategy isn’t prescriptive; you don’t have to do precisely what it suggests. Instead, it has combined the latest available data and local knowledge to offer recommendations to help inform your nature recovery actions and locations. The recommendations are flexible; you can use local knowledge, ground truthing, and land manager preferences to modify the recommendations and choose the actions that work best in a given area.

Gallery  - asking Chloe to upload to youtube and transcript

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Other documents [CE15] and appendices

A large volume of information and documentation has been produced during the preparation and development of this local nature recovery strategy.

• Consultation reports
  • View our report about the public consultation responses to the draft LNRS. Additionally you can view more detailed lists of all of the responses we received during our public consultation.
• Read our response to the public consultation
  • View a summary of ‘what we did’ in response to ‘what you said’ during the public consultation.
• View the draft LNRS documents and map.
• A methodology describing how the Local Habitat Map was created
  • TVERC’s methodology to produce the Local Habitat Map data
• National LNRS guidance
  • Local Nature Recovery Strategy Statutory Guidance
  • Local Nature Recovery Strategies – how to prepare and what to include
  • Identifying and agreeing priorities and potential measures within Local Nature Recovery Strategies
  • Species recovery within LNRS
  • Mapping potential measures in Local Nature Recovery Strategies advice
• Webinars and videos
  • Watch our webinar from May 2025 showing what we heard in our consultation and what work is planned next.

Contact us: To get in touch with the Local Nature Recovery Strategy project manager, please contact localnaturerecoverystrategy@oxfordshire.gov.uk

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The description of the strategy area is fully designed and could be downloaded once clicked on. 

 [CE6]Web page info here: LNRS webpages Local Habitat Map page.docx 

 [CE7]Web page info here: LNRS webpages Statement of Biodiversity Priorities page.docx 

 [CE8]Web page info here: LNRS webpages Species Priorities List page.docx 

 [CE9]Web page info here: LNRS webpages Description of Strategy Area page.docx 

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Each tile would opens a separate guide tailored to that audience, with practical advice and next steps. Information provided by LNRS and LNRS staff would need to keep links up to date.

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 [CE13]Please add the files from ‘Gallery’ section here: Documents to upload 

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 [CE15]Please note, all the files you would need should be accessible here: Documents to upload 

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