The Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) is a new spatial strategy to identify locations to improve nature and provide other environmental benefits, such as carbon sequestration, flood regulation and improved access to green space. In Surrey this will be called the Surrey Nature Recovery.
All information on the LNRS can be found on the Surrey Commonplace website, click here to visit the site, respond to the public consultation and plot your places for nature on the Surrey map.
Update December 2025: Surrey’s LNRS is nearing completion – final draft submission to Supporting Authorities due January 2026, Surrey County Council Cabinet Sign Off due March 2026.
Update October 2025: The Public Consultation has now ended.
Update August 2025: The Public Consultation has opened.
Update December 2024: The survey has now closed.
The Local Nature Recovery Strategy will:
- Agree priorities for nature’s recovery
- Map the most valuable existing areas for nature
- Map specific proposals for creating and improving habitat for nature and wider environmental goals
Required by law under the Environment Act 2021, every county in England will produce a Local Nature Recovery Strategy. These strategies will work together to restore, create and connect habitats across England.
Decisions about where and how to recover nature will be reached through consultation with a wide range of people and groups in each county, from ecologists and community groups to health professionals and local businesses. In Surrey, we want everyone to have their say.
Local Nature Recovery Strategies will help to direct several new funding streams. This includes Biodiversity Net Gain a policy to ensure developers contribute to the recovery of nature while developing land.
Surrey Nature Partnership is supporting Surrey County Council in the production of Surrey’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy. Please see their website for further information.
A series of eight themed workshops and a second series of three geographical location based workshops have been held throughout 2024. The Workshops have now concluded – see link below for more information.
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