Local Nature Recovery Strategy Consultation now open

In July 2025 Ruth Rolls, WNC Nature Recovery Strategy Officer, gave us an overview of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for West Northamptonshire.

Clare Robertson-Marriott followed this up with an excellent explainer What is a Local Nature Recovery Strategy?

As Ruth told us, the Council is taking the lead in developing our strategy but when it comes to writing about, and delivering on, nature recovery, councils rely on public collaboration. After all, as land around us is being gobbled up for unnatural development, it is our nature we need to protect.

Have your say here.
You have a choice between completing a questionnaire (which mainly asks if you want to remove/change any of the identified priorities and measures, or add new ones), or sending in an email, which obviously enables you to say whatever you like. The LNRS itself is quite long but readable and includes a lot of images. You also have the opportunity to look at the interactive Habitat Map, which shows existing and potential areas of value to wildlife. Interesting to zoom in on your own neighbourhood!