What is the Local Nature Recovery Strategy?
The Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) is a new legal requirement under the Environment Act 2021 — a practical plan to guide where and how we restore nature in our county.
It will:
- Set out local biodiversity priorities
- Identify key areas for restoring or enhancing nature
- Show where nature-based solutions can bring wider benefits like cleaner water, reduced flooding, and carbon capture
- Guide how public money is spent and how land use planning supports recovery
An interactive online map will help you explore opportunities and priorities in your area, supporting better decisions.
Learn More Before Responding
- View the full draft LNRS and supporting documents on consultation website
- Read the summary document on the consultation website
- Explore the online habitat map portal
- Dive into our story maps
All documents and links are available on the consultation website
This is your chance to speak up for nature. Don’t miss it.
🌿 Shape the Future of Nature in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 🌿
Have Your Say on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)
Nature is at a turning point — and you can help decide where we go from here.
For millennia we have lived alongside and amongst nature, experiencing an abundance of wildlife through the changing seasons, the dawn chorus and bluebells in spring, wildflowers and clouds of insects in summer, autumn colours, and flocks of birds or owls hooting in winter. Our own prosperity was entwined with the natural world.
We have the knowledge to help nature recover. Let’s make it happen!
Now is the time to act — together
We know what needs to be done. The draft LNRS for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough is our roadmap to Creating a wildlife-rich, resilient, productive and sustainable landscape, for people and nature.
The Strategy describes our most precious habitats, animals and plants in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Our plan is to make these places bigger, better managed and more joined up to promote nature recovery.
The strategy sets out actions to take for nature recovery. It also shows places that we think have the best opportunity to do this.
How to share your views:
Take the Local Nature Recovery Strategy survey- Prefer a paper copy?
- Download a Word version of the form or email to request one. Return printed surveys to The Biodiversity Team, New Shire Hall, Emery Crescent, Enterprise Campus, Alconbury Weald, PE28 4YE
- Visit your local library to view the draft strategy and share your feedback in person (available from 22 July 2025)
Need this information in another format? Email us localnaturerecoverystrategy@cambridgeshire.gov.uk
Our public consultation will run from 18 July 2025 to 11 September 2025.