Defining our Priorities and Action for Nature Recovery

The Strategy’s  “statement of biodiversity priorities” will set out the priorities, in terms of habitats and species, for recovering or enhancing biodiversity and consider the contribution that this may also make to addressing wider environmental issues with nature-based solutions.

In addition to identifying the county’s priorities for nature recovery and enhancement, the project will also define the potential practical actions necessary to progress towards achievement of the priorities.

This is an important stage of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy preparation, as it establishes what the strategy is seeking to achieve and the potential measures needed to support the ambitions.  Whilst working with partners and stakeholders is important to the whole process, it is during this part of the project that we especially want meaningful engagement with stakeholders, as these will be the delivery partners for the Strategy’s priorities and actions.  We also want to ensure that the priorities reflect what’s most important to the people and organisations in Kent – to ensure it really is a LOCAL Nature Recovery Strategy, reflected our local nature and environmental needs.

Where are we up to?

Following our second series of workshops in May, the draft priorities have been refined and restructured and the potential measures that will deliver these identified.  The draft Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy Priorities and Potential Measures has now been published and can be viewed following the link below:

Draft Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy Priorities and Potential Measures

If you have any comments you would like to make to the project team on the draft Priorities and Potential Measures, please send them to makingspacefornature@kent.gov.uk (the deadline for comments is 18th August 2024).

Reports of the workshops and process that informed the draft Priorities and Potential measures can be viewed following the links below:

MS4N Kent and Medway LNRS Priorities shortlisting workshops report July 2024

MS4N Kent and Medway LNRS Priorities shortlisting workshops voting report July 2024

MS4N Priorities shortlisting workshops attendance report June-24

MS4N – Redrafted Kent and Medway LNRS priorities report July 2024

MS4N LNRS potential measures workshops report July 2024

MS4N Potential measures workshops attendance report June-24

 

A quick reminder of how we got to here:

• Pressures and priorities stakeholder workshops, January and February 2024, developing priorities long list.
• Application of shortlisting criteria to priorities long list.
• Publication of draft priorities shortlist, April 2024.
• Priorities shortlisting and potential measures stakeholder workshops, May 2024.

Outputs from all stages of this work can be found at the bottom of the page, under background information.  Workshop reports are available from our Get Involved section of the website.