Purpose

Gloucestershire County Council are the
responsible authority for preparing and delivering the LNRS,CDC has
played a supporting role. Strategy to be endorsed by Cabinet.

Content

The purpose of
the report was to endorse the Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery
Strategy.
Councillor Juliet
Layton, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning
introduced the Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
(LNRS), a statutory strategy introduced under the Environment Act
2021 and approved by Gloucestershire County Council in January
2026. The report explained that the LNRS had been developed
collaboratively with local authorities and partners, including the
Gloucestershire Local Nature Partnership, and provided a spatial
framework identifying opportunities for habitat creation,
restoration and expansion at a landscape scale to support nature
recovery. The report further outlined the statutory requirement for
local planning authorities to have regard to the LNRS in fulfilling
their biodiversity duties.
The
recommendations were proposed by Councillor Juliet Layton and
seconded by Councillor Mike McKeown.
Cabinet RESOLVED to:

1.   
Endorse the Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
 
Voting record:
6 For, 0 Against, 0 Abstentions.