Issue - meetings
Local Nature Recovery Strategy
Meeting: 21/10/2025 - Cabinet (Item 146)
146 Oxfordshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) 
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Cabinet Member: Place, Environment and Climate Action
Forward Plan Ref: 2025/159
Contact: Chloe Edwards, LNRS Project Manager
Chloe.edwards@oxfordshire.gov.uk
Report by Director of Environment and Highways (CA14)
Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to
(a) Approve the adoption of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)
(b) Support the County Council’s commitment to deliver, monitor, and review the LNRS in future (post-adoption) in partnership with local people and organisations.
Additional documents:
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 1a. Final LNRS Description of Strategy Area, item 146
PDF 10 MB
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 1b. Final LNRS Statement of Biodiversity Priorities, item 146
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- Annex 1c. Final LNRS Species Priorities List, item 146
PDF 11 MB
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 2. LNRS response to consultation, item 146
PDF 2 MB
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 3. LNRS organogram draft v2, item 146
PDF 312 KB
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 4. Data sources used to produce LNRS Local Habitat Map, item 146
PDF 271 KB
- CA211025 LNRS Annex 5. CIA LNRS 2025, item 146
PDF 227 KB
- Annex 6. EIA LNRS 2025, item 146
PDF 814 KB
Decision:
Recommendations approved.
Minutes:
Cabinet had before it a report which recommended the adoption of a Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS). The LNRS vision was to achieve a resilient, well-connected network of nature that benefitted biodiversity and future generations. The strategy included a narrative description of Oxfordshire’s biodiversity, a set of priority actions for species and habitats, and a mapped network highlighting key locations for nature recovery efforts. Adoption would enable formal launch and alignment with national environmental goals such as the UK Government’s 25 Year Environment Plan and the Environment Act 2021.
Councillor Judy Roberts, Cabinet Member for Place, Environment and Climate Action, presented the report.
Councillor Roberts moved and Councillor Gregory seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.
RESOLVED to
a) Approve the adoption of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)
b) Support the County Council’s commitment to deliver, monitor, and review the LNRS in future (post-adoption) in partnership with local people and organisations.