Issue - meetings
Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Meeting: 05/03/2026 - Cabinet (Item 10.)
10. Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy 
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Purpose:
To endorse the Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Recommendation:
That Cabinet resolves to:
1. Endorse the Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
Additional documents:
- Annex A - LNRS Part 1, item 10.
PDF 15 MB
- Annex B - LNRS Part 2, item 10.
PDF 1 MB
- Annex C - LNRS screenshot of habitat map and link, item 10.
PDF 335 KB
- Webcast for Gloucestershire Local Nature Recovery Strategy
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.