User Guides and Advice

To aid in the interpretation of the LNRS, we have created a suite of User Guides:  [Links to be added] 

• Planners and Developers 

  Planners and developers should use the LNRS to provide essential evidence for local plans, helping to identify where nature recovery efforts should be prioritised, and ensuring that planning decisions support local biodiversity goals and contribute to the broader Nature Recovery Network, to embed nature recovery considerations into the decision-making process.  The LNRS will also guide developers when choosing the location of off-site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units by providing uplift if applying mapped measures.  Importantly, planning guidance from the government requires local plans (including minerals and waste plans and joint spatial development strategies) to ‘have regard to’ the relevant LNRS. 

• Public and Environmental Organisations

  Public and environmental organisations should utilise the strategy to guide policies and decisions, direct investments and prioritise funding to deliver maximum benefits to nature recovery.  In particular, LNRSs will inform how all public authorities in England meet their legal duty to conserve and enhance biodiversity (the Biodiversity Duty).  The duty applies to national and local government organisations as well as some private utilities such as water companies.  Public authorities must understand which LNRSs are relevant to them and how they can contribute.  This could be through managing areas of land that they are responsible for in a way that supports what the LNRS proposes and using the LNRS to inform relevant regulatory decisions. 

• Farmers, Landowners and Land Managers

  Farmers, landowners and land managers can use the LNRS to help make decisions about habitat creation and improvement on their land.  The LNRS is intended to align with Environment Land Management (ELM) to support and enable nature friendly, profitable farming through applying measures that will support nature and also help to mitigate and adapt to climate change.  

• Residents, Volunteers, Local Groups and Communities

  Residents, Volunteers, Local Groups and Communities can all play a part in nature recovery and can use the LNRS to find out which community efforts will have the most impact and where. 

It may be useful to consider this information in conjunction with this summary table of the Priorities and Measures (mapped and unmapped) within the Derbyshire LNRS, (to view click here).

Before works start, it is important to note that while the LNRS helps local people plan nature recovery actions, it is still essential  to seek advice and any necessary permissions before starting work on the ground. 

Click here for our Guide on Best Practice in Management Planning for nature recovery sites, which contains links to further useful information.