Policy Update: July 2023

Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Tees Valley Combined Authority has recently been appointed as the Responsible Authority for preparing and publishing a Local Nature Recovery Strategy for the Tees Valley and will work with other organisations and partners in the area to agree priorities for nature recovery.

Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) were introduced in the Environment Act 2021 to:

• Support efforts to recover nature across England
• Help planning authorities incorporate nature recovery objectives
• Support the delivery of Biodiversity Net Gain
• Help deliver the governments national environment targets.

There are 48 strategy areas covering the whole of England and each LNRS will agree priorities for nature recovery and propose actions in the locations where it would make a particular contribution to achieving those priorities.