Decision details
Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved (subject to call-in)
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
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.
Decision:
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.
Report author: Danielle Berry
Publication date: 06/03/2026
Date of decision: 05/03/2026
Decided at meeting: 05/03/2026 - Cabinet
Date comes into force if not called in: 14/03/2026
Call-in deadline date: 13/03/2026
Current call-in Count: 0
Accompanying Documents:
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