Local Nature Recovery Strategy: Strategic Survey
Overview
Cornwall Council, in collaboration with the Local Nature Partnership and the Council of the Isles of Scilly, are developing a new Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
When completed, the strategy will become a blueprint for the recovery of nature – outlining what we can do, where are the best opportunities for doing it, and considers how we can deliver it alongside wider environmental outcomes such as reduced flood risk and carbon sequestration. It will provide organisations with a framework for developing nature recovery projects and will help prioritise funding and investment in nature’s recovery.
Your role in shaping the LNRS
We have identified organisations that have a strategic role in helping to either deliver, or support delivery of nature recovery. If you were one of the 130 organisations we reached out to, and you haven't responded already, then we’d love you to submit a survey response. If you haven’t heard from us, but think you should have, then email us at grow-nature@cornwall.gov.uk. If contacted we will consider adding you to our list of key organisations to ensure your survey response will be taken into account.
We have already started our public engagement for the strategy, and you may have filled out our nature recovery survey. The purpose of the public survey is to gather the priorities of residents of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. These will then be turned into a long-list of nature recovery priorities which will be refined into a final short-list by local experts and relevant organisations.
However, this strategic questionnaire develops on this evidence base by asking about your organisations specific priorities, policies and related projects for nature recovery. This will create opportunities for:
Your organisational priorities to be fed into the LNRS process
Links and alignment between policies, strategies and plans and the LNRS
Relevant spatial data collected by your organisation to be fed into the LNRS mapping
Current and future projects to be embedded within the LNRS to support delivery
The deadline for this survey was 5th December, but has been extended to 10th February 2024.
Further Engagement Opportunities:
Once completed, we will analyse the results of this and the public survey. We will then continue to engage with organisations and key partners as we refine our list of nature recovery priorities through webinars, workshops and other engagement channels. Details of these activities will be released in due course.
If you have any questions or require the survey in a different format, please contact grow-nature@cornwall.gov.uk