Local Nature Recovery Strategies are a new way of prioritising nature needs on a more local and focused level. Find out more here.
A paper went to July's 2023's cabinet meeting (11 July 2023) on this topic. The North of Tyne geography is Northumberland, Newcastle and North Tyneside. We held two steering groups in 2023. The Steering Group is made up of members of Northumberland County Council, North Tyneside Council, Newcastle City Council, Natural England, Northumberland National Park Authority, the Northumberland Coast National Landscape, the North Pennines National Landscape, the Environment Agency, the Marine Nature Partnership, the Forestry Commission and the North of Tyne Combined Authority. The next meeting is in early May 2024 and meetings are every 2 months. We have been working regionally with the three other LNRSs in the North East (South of Tyne and Wear, Durham, and Tees Valley) to make sure we are co-ordinated, especially cross-border, on the maps and data side of things. Similarly, we need to liaise with the two new Authorities in Cumbria to make sure our boundary is co-ordinated (Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness) and also mindful of the Scottish Borders Council. We have been working on our "stage 1" map. (The LNRS guidance sets out 5 steps for us to follow; stage 1 and stage 5 are map stages). You can see this here (opens in a new page). The first tile you will see there is the part that fulfills the statutory guidance about the LNRS. The second, third and fifth tiles are extra. The tile about conversation areas just explains how we are dividing up the geography to help with consultation, read on. We are planning some consultation events to happen between June and October 2024. The fourth tile in this map collection (here, opens in a new page) shows how we are dividing the North of Tyne up into 7 areas to make these conversations practical. We have formed an "engagement sub group" and are meeting monthly. We will add more to this section of these webpages as the process starts and there is more for people to be involved in. We have been reviewing some descriptions of the nature and biodiversity in the area that we wrote in early 2021, and updating that text. This document is nearly ready to share online. We will use this to start drawing up a "long list" of priorities and potential measures, to use in our engagement stage. Together with the Environmental Records Centre we are also starting work on a similar "long list" of species, although the specides guidance is very different to the habitat guidance. ERIC North-East are hosting a LNRS Conference at the Great North Museum: Hancock in Newcastle on Saturday 16th March. The conference will share information on the four LNRSs in the region, and present opportunities for you to provide some valuable initial input with a particular focus on species. ERIC North East holds our wildlife data and the recording community's knowledge is vital to help responsible authorities develop their strategies. If you have a specialism in a particular species or species group(s) then the ERIC conference could well be of interest to you. We are planning a launch event for technical experts on Wednesday 10th April at 2pm at The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre.
We are starting a technical consultation with wildlife, nature and species "experts". It starts on April 10th 2024 and closes on May 24 2024. Here is a copy of the presentation delivered at the launch event at The Sill (1.5 MB, opens in a new window). The attached pdf document explains more (click here, opens in a new window, 2.8MB, 82 pages). It summarises the process for preparing the LNRS, as set out in the Government guidance we are following. And it starts the consultation to validate the "building blocks" of the first steps in the LNRS process. Our description of the biodiversity in the area is written using the National Character Areas (NCAs) as a way of dividing up the North of Tyne into similar landscapes. Our mapping for stage 1 of the LNRS process is here, which is part of a collection of maps (both links open in a new window). The NCAs can be viewed interactively at the end of the first map tile. Our proposed "conversation areas" is the 4th one of the collection. We are working with the Environmental Records Information Centre (ERIC). The species longlists are available to download from their website (the marine species longlist is separate). Our broad timeline is to spend:
If you would like to tell us what you think, about this first set of information which covers stages 1-3 in the LNRS guidance, here are the links to the consultation forms (each link opens in a new window): A general form to cover many or all the NCAs A general form to cover Species Border Moors and Forests NCA Cheviots NCA Cheviot Fringe NCA Durham Coalfield Plain NCA Mid Northumberland NCA North Northumberland Coastal Plain NCA North Pennines NCA Northumberland Sandstone Hills NCA Tyne & Wear Lowlands NCA Tyne Gap and Hadrian's Wall NCA South East Northumberland Coastal Plain NCA North Northumberland marine protected area (Scottish Border to Alnmouth) Coquet to Tyne marine protected area (Alnmouth to Tyne Estuary)
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