Banter 87: 17Sep25 Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Lynn and Janet presented on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) in Shropshire and Telford, highlighting its purpose, mapping approach, and collaboration with various stakeholders.

Video Timeline (min:sec):

00:00 - 18:00 Presentation by Lynn as Shropshire County Councillor

18:00 - 25:00 Presentation by Janet as a Parish Clerk and Board of Middle Marches Community Land Trust

25:00 - 50:38(end) Q & A

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Presentation:

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Shropshire Telford Wrekin Local Nature Recoveryv2.pptx

There are two presentations combined in the above file. Y ou are welcome to download it; a markdown version of the presentation is at the bottom of this page for the AI Search Engine to analyse.

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Meeting Summary:

Sep 17, 2025 11:53 AM London ID: 834 5460 8536

Quick recap

Lynn and Janet delivered a presentation on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy in Shropshire and Telford, covering its purpose, mapping approach, and stakeholder collaboration. The session concluded with questions about various aspects of the strategy and mapping systems, while participants discussed potential funding sources and practical implementation approaches.

Next steps

• Graham to Google how to permanently change names in Zoom meetings and share the information with Andrew.

• Lynn to find and post the list of responsible authorities for local nature recovery strategies in the chat.

• Graham to share details about parish online mapping systems in the chat for Eluned and others interested.

• Lynn to explore the possibility of exporting local nature recovery strategy maps to parish online mapping systems for parish councils to use.

• Graham to work with Lynn on implementing two-way mapping between local nature recovery strategies and parish council maps.

• Lynn and Janet to share information about their town and parish council engagement approach with others interested after the meeting.

• Janet to help people put together similar nature recovery programs for town and parish councils if they reach out after the meeting.

Summary

Coordinated Presentation and Zoom Setup

The meeting began with a discussion about presentation slides, where Janet confirmed that Lynne had combined both their talks, with Janet's segment to follow Lynne's. Graham and others discussed how to change their names in the Zoom meeting to indicate their location or role, with Jackie providing helpful advice about changing the surname and location in the Zoom settings. The meeting waited for additional participants to join, with Graham noting that they typically wait for more attendees than are currently logged in. Lynn confirmed she would present first, with Graham offering to assist if needed, and Lynn successfully shared and began her presentation.

Shropshire Nature Recovery Strategy

Lynn and Janet presented on the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) in Shropshire and Telford, highlighting its purpose, mapping approach, and collaboration with various stakeholders. They discussed the strategy's role in prioritizing nature recovery actions, targeting funds, and providing guidance for landowners. Janet shared initiatives to engage town and parish councils in nature recovery, including conferences and developing bespoke plans. The session covered challenges such as funding for urban tree planting and the need for early reviews of LNRS. Participants asked questions about mapping systems, soil health, and health benefits of nature, with suggestions for funding sources and practical actions.

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Chat:

00:11:12 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): -->

00:11:39 Lisa Scott: This is very timely, Surrey County Council are running a consultation on their nature recovery plan (closes on the 25th)

00:11:59 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): <}-->

00:15:31 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: Cambridgeshire & Peterborough have just completed their LNRS public consultation too.

00:16:19 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: What software do you use for mapping/

00:31:29 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Question on scope and scale of LNRS. The best sites in a county may not be the best in a district or the best in a parish.

00:36:22 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Cannot copy from a screen share. Need to put URLs in the chat.

00:38:44 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: Janet - can you share your action list?

00:39:39 Jacky Lawrence, Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire: LNRS | WCS LNP

this is Warwickshire's Local Nature Recovery Strategy: https://www.wcslnp.co.uk/lnrs

00:40:57 Jacky Lawrence, Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire: The Nature Recovery Network - GOV.UK

00:41:53 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Graham, can you share the info about Parish Online for those PCs that are not on board yet?

00:41:56 Janet Cobb: Replying to "Janet - can you shar..." yes will be on MMCLT website by Oct 3rd https://middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/

00:42:00 Lisa Scott: Would very much like for our Parish to feed in to your map! (Charlwood, by Gatwick Airport).

00:42:14 Lisa Scott: Reacted to "Graham, can you shar..." with 👍

00:44:24 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: Parish online is excellent - but at the moment it is not linked to Somerset Nature recovery - so our little recognised wildlife site is not on it, PO is at https://www.parish-online.co.uk/

00:44:33 Janet Cobb: Soil health films · Kiss the ground https://youtu.be/3iknWWKZOUs

· Common Ground https://youtu.be/6-M4Hq0MKFA

· Six inches of soil https://youtu.be/OaJl0yQ7ufQ

00:46:25 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: An unexpected place to get in touch with corporate, local authority and government cash for your projects: https://crowdfunder.co.uk. Create an account and login for free, and describe your project, and their computers will automatically link you to funders in that area and topic 00:46:25 Jacky Lawrence, Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire: Warwickshire-Local-Nature-Action-Plans-guidance-for-town-and-parish-councils-DRAFT-September-2024.pdf 00:48:08 Jacky Lawrence, Napton on the Hill, Warwickshire: Replying to "Crowdfunder"

Wildlife and Nature Crowdfunding | Crowdfunder.co.uk 00:49:11 Ken Huggins North Dorset: Reacted to "(Sorry, my typing ac..." with 😂

00:50:09 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): There are free trees from the Trees Council, plus the annual garden trees giveaway 00:50:39 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Branching Out Fund - The Tree Council

00:51:26 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Parish Online mapping: see https://www.parish-online.co.uk/services/mapping (scroll all the way down the page). There is a 3 month free trial available. Or an immediate 10% discount. The site tells the cost for your parish (it varies widely based on size, from £30 pa up!)

00:51:31 Garry Ford - Corsham Town Council: Free Trees for Schools and Communities - Woodland Trust

00:52:51 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): There is the Trees Collaborate Network in Oxfordshire.

00:53:13 Andrew Clegg, Martock, Somerset: We have never had problems with funding but we have been doing our own planting and management. Everyone seems to want to give away trees, even quite big ones. We have got a lot from National Highways.

01:03:39 Kirsten Newble Cambridge: A great session thank you both

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Audio Transcript (for AI search engine):

86 00:12:23.380 --> 00:12:30.969 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So, we've reached the magical 5 minutes, so, of all the 20-plus people that promised to come.

87 00:12:31.120 --> 00:12:38.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: We appear to have got as many as are going to come today. So, did you say, Charlie, that it's Lynn who's going to start today?

88 00:12:40.400 --> 00:12:41.930 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, I think I'm gonna stop.

89 00:12:41.930 --> 00:12:47.410 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: And you'd like to, run the presentation yourself, Lynn, or do you want me to run it?

90 00:12:47.410 --> 00:12:53.090 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I can run it. I was thinking you might, but maybe it might be easier.

91 00:12:53.090 --> 00:12:53.869 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Yeah, sure, I'll agree.

92 00:12:53.870 --> 00:12:58.439 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I'm doing it, let me open it up.

93 00:13:00.180 --> 00:13:02.820 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: But I do have it as a fallback, if you need to.

94 00:13:06.150 --> 00:13:10.259 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Right, I've opened it up. So, will I be able to share it?

95 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:11.660 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Oh yes, please do.

96 00:13:13.950 --> 00:13:16.890 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: We're a lot happier audience if you're sharing it.

97 00:13:16.890 --> 00:13:24.209 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Okay. Where is the… there it is, share. It's been a while since I've used…

98 00:13:24.530 --> 00:13:26.239 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Is it, is it a film?

99 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:30.900 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: You have to click two, so there's the green one, and then there's the one that shows you the share you've chosen.

100 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:31.930 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Okay.

101 00:13:31.930 --> 00:13:33.360 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Well done, yup, you there?

102 00:13:33.510 --> 00:13:37.359 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Over there, okay. And you need to probably go into slideshow mode.

103 00:13:38.260 --> 00:13:38.640 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Right.

104 00:13:38.640 --> 00:13:39.020 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: There you go.

105 00:13:39.020 --> 00:13:39.790 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Is that what?

106 00:13:39.790 --> 00:13:40.540 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Yes, perfect.

107 00:13:40.920 --> 00:13:42.650 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Okay, good.

108 00:13:42.650 --> 00:13:43.449 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: All yours, Pete.

109 00:13:43.450 --> 00:14:00.550 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: All right. Why on earth you're talking to us. So, I'm… I'm just going to introduce, kind of local nature recovery strategies. I am the coordinator for the Shropshire and Telf-Genrikin Local Nature Recovery Strategy,

110 00:14:00.550 --> 00:14:11.079 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And, this first slide just shows who's on our steering group, and, I'm going to try and make it a kind of fairly general,

111 00:14:11.080 --> 00:14:24.449 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: conversation, because I know that it's not structure until Tarika-focused, but that's obviously my experience. There are similarities, obviously, across the… across the country.

112 00:14:24.450 --> 00:14:31.679 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And the fundamental point from this slide is that it is collaborative, it's important that it is a collaborative project.

113 00:14:31.760 --> 00:14:46.079 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I work for Shropshire Council, but I don't feel necessarily that I work for the Council. I feel like I work, for the Nature, Recovery Strategy Steering Group. That's, they're kind of my guide.

114 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:52.579 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And they've been really, really helpful and really supportive, obviously with very different organisational

115 00:14:52.650 --> 00:15:09.729 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: priorities. We've got people like NFU and CLA who are more, kind of, there from a landowner voice perspective, and then the, arm's length government bodies, like Natural England, Forestry Commission, and Environment Agency, and then, kind of, the Wildlife Trust and the National Landscape,

116 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:21.769 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: team, along with the council, so it's a really broad, kind of, cross-sector partnership at the steering group level, but then it's much broader than that, in terms of everybody that's been involved in developing it.

117 00:15:22.040 --> 00:15:37.429 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So what are strategies? So the purpose of the local nature recovery strategy is to identify priority nature recovery actions across the whole county, and importantly, also to map them.

118 00:15:37.910 --> 00:15:53.340 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So we are one of 48, so whatever area you're in, you will have a local nature recovery strategy at, at some point in its development. A few have already been published.

119 00:15:53.480 --> 00:16:07.209 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But only very few. I think there's kind of six in… across England that have been published so far. A number are out for consultation at the moment, like ours is currently out for consultation.

120 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:18.200 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And I saw someone, put a note in the chat that theirs is out at the moment. Some have, are kind of passed that and are kind of seeking to kind of get adopted.

121 00:16:19.390 --> 00:16:27.109 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Importantly, it's got a legislative background to it, so it's the Environment Act 2021,

122 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:34.600 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And DEFRA is the… the kind of organization, that has produced all the guidance, and is the…

123 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:49.840 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: one that we get the grant from, so each organization that's developing it, so here, it says the legislation, it designates the responsible authority, so that is normally the county council type organization in the… in the…

124 00:16:49.840 --> 00:16:56.819 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: area, so Shropshire Council is… isn't a county council, but it is, it's that sort of function.

125 00:16:56.840 --> 00:17:15.090 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And then, it also designates supporting authorities. So, in this situation, DEFRA appointed Telford Enriquean Council, as a supporting authority, and Natural England in every county is the supporting authority, but it would all… it would generally be the district authorities and borough.

126 00:17:15.089 --> 00:17:21.649 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: councils, that would be a supporting authority. And they have to,

127 00:17:21.970 --> 00:17:37.959 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: They've got formal roles, so they have to be kind of generally involved throughout its development, but there's a formal process where they've got to say yes before it goes out to consultation, and then again, they've got to say yes before it is, adopted.

128 00:17:40.220 --> 00:17:43.439 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So why the need?

129 00:17:43.620 --> 00:17:51.190 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Importantly, we've got to have it, the Environment Act says we've got to have it, so that's the fundamental driving force.

130 00:17:51.190 --> 00:18:07.209 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Along with the requirement to produce the Local Nature Recovery Strategy, the Environment Act also set out that all public bodies, including town and parish councils, now have an enhanced duty to maintain and enhance biodiversity.

131 00:18:07.210 --> 00:18:11.570 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And some of what Janet's going to talk about in a minute will pick up on that.

132 00:18:11.600 --> 00:18:28.939 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But more broadly, we know we've got these trends, they're not looking good, kind of, generally across the board, especially for, for specialist species. We know we've got fragmented habitats. That's having big impacts,

133 00:18:28.990 --> 00:18:40.280 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: We've got faltering ecosystem functions, flooding, drought, soil health, carbon capture. They're all big issues, and if we've got a more resilient

134 00:18:40.350 --> 00:18:52.399 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Habitat, more resilient nature, land, it has all those broader benefits, as well as benefiting nature. It also benefits, all these other services that land.

135 00:18:52.520 --> 00:18:58.580 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Needs to provide for us, as well as, you know, kind of everything else that needs to survive in it.

136 00:18:58.910 --> 00:19:05.509 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There are additional benefits, there's more and more evidence, evidence around health and well-being, importance.

137 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:18.830 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: of being out in nature, and what it can provide to us. We've evolved over millennia of being out in nature. We need it, as well as the fundamental air and water it provides.

138 00:19:18.900 --> 00:19:29.699 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But then the kind of economic benefits here in Shropshire, I'm sure, as in many of the, the areas that you represent, there are some amazing, kind of, beautiful natural assets, and…

139 00:19:29.970 --> 00:19:36.079 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: You know, the sustainable tourism element from an economic point of view is also an important consideration.

140 00:19:36.850 --> 00:19:55.309 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There is an upswell of interest and activity, kind of driven more recently, well, various different drivers, kind of talks of, kind of, green finance, kind of coming in, but also the agri-environment scheme changes are more from a, a kind of nature.

141 00:19:55.320 --> 00:19:59.810 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: lead perspective, the kind of public money for public goods.

142 00:19:59.860 --> 00:20:15.769 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And, there's just a general upswell of, of interest and activity, people wanting to take action, so it's, it's timely, as well as being kind of required and needed. It is also, kind of responding to,

143 00:20:15.850 --> 00:20:21.659 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I kind of want, in various, sectors of society.

144 00:20:23.490 --> 00:20:32.489 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: A lot of the guidance, if you go on and have a look at it, don't know how interested you are to look at guidance, but it talks very much about bringing stakeholders together.

145 00:20:32.490 --> 00:20:43.569 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: That's one of its important, elements in terms of its, its development at the local nature recovery strategy. And the purpose is to align action to the county priorities.

146 00:20:43.580 --> 00:21:02.249 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So, you know, we've kind of started out with a whole huge number of priorities and reduced, reduced them down to try and help. We've got to focus action. That's… that's the job, of the… of the strategy. We can't say everything's important when that might be what… what we, what we think. We've got to think, okay, well, the life of the strategy is kind of…

147 00:21:02.250 --> 00:21:09.540 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: We're working on about 10 years. What can we achieve within that… within that time? What should we be focusing on?

148 00:21:11.810 --> 00:21:24.640 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Another purpose is to target funds, so it's about targeting funds and resources. The only direct link with funds at the moment to local nature recovery strategies is biodiversity net gain.

149 00:21:24.650 --> 00:21:36.549 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And people get 15% uplift if they're doing, biodiversity net gain in a mapped area of the local nature recovery strategy.

150 00:21:38.600 --> 00:21:49.780 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But we also think that there's going to be future connections to wider agrienvironment schemes, such as the kind of top end, which is landscape recovery.

151 00:21:49.810 --> 00:22:03.599 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: and, you know, other fund… funding bids. It's a… it's an important, consideration if… if a county has spent a long time considering what its priorities are and where they are, where they are and what they are.

152 00:22:03.600 --> 00:22:12.939 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Then people are going to use them. You know, DEFRA's not paying for each county to produce this for no reason. We've got limited money, and it will therefore…

153 00:22:12.940 --> 00:22:29.329 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: it will influence how funding is used in future. The tricky thing is that we don't completely know how yet, which is putting landowners in a tricky situation when they're trying to decide what the best thing for their business is in a really turbulent time for them.

154 00:22:30.340 --> 00:22:46.110 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It will provide guidance for landowners and others interested in nature recovery. You know, we're hoping it's useful, and that's the, you know, one of the kind of main drivers behind our consultation that's out. We want people to say.

155 00:22:46.430 --> 00:22:51.160 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Is it useful? How can we make it more useful? How can we make it more accurate and appropriate?

156 00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:54.980 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So what it is, it's…

157 00:22:55.050 --> 00:23:02.650 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: two things. So, it's the statement of biodiversity priorities, and that's the kind of what. So, in each area.

158 00:23:02.700 --> 00:23:17.199 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It sets out a description of the strategy area, it needs to set out what are the key opportunities, what are the key pressures and threats that need to be addressed, and then really importantly, what are the priorities and actions?

159 00:23:17.290 --> 00:23:24.010 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And, yeah, they'll be different for each area.

160 00:23:24.110 --> 00:23:40.770 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But there'll also be a lot of similarities. You know, we know we need more wetland, we know we need to restore peatland, we need to connect up woodlands, you know, it's all those sorts of things that we're talking about. It's not… it's nothing,

161 00:23:41.810 --> 00:23:49.850 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: new from that perspective. It's the kind of more habitat, it's the bigger habitat, it's the kind of making it better and better connected.

162 00:23:49.980 --> 00:23:54.920 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And what's different about this is prioritizing

163 00:23:55.340 --> 00:24:03.619 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: what it is that we focus on, and then the map is saying, well, where is it that we should be focusing on? And each map,

164 00:24:04.140 --> 00:24:07.309 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Has started from the same point.

165 00:24:07.620 --> 00:24:12.150 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So, on our map, just there in that image, you'll see that there's green bits and brown bits.

166 00:24:12.300 --> 00:24:19.209 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: The green bits are the… the kind of bits that are really good already.

167 00:24:19.390 --> 00:24:23.579 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So they're the designated sites, and every area

168 00:24:24.370 --> 00:24:27.970 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: has been told by DEFRA what they include.

169 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:44.580 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: in… within that, what we've called… what's green on that map, it's called the areas of particular importance for biodiversity. So it's the kind of existing good bits, and they're things like, the sites for special scientific interest, or Ramzar sites, or…

170 00:24:44.890 --> 00:24:56.430 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: local wildlife sites, or local nature reserves, so things have actually got a designation, along with irreplaceable habitat. So things like peatland and ancient woodland.

171 00:24:57.310 --> 00:25:02.949 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And then, each area has mapped

172 00:25:03.780 --> 00:25:15.359 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: the… what in this map is brown, so the areas that could become of particular importance for biodiversity. It's a big mouthful. But, and this bit's different, because we're mapping…

173 00:25:15.470 --> 00:25:17.010 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: What could be there?

174 00:25:17.150 --> 00:25:20.389 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: We're not necessarily mapping what is there.

175 00:25:21.050 --> 00:25:31.270 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And DEFRA didn't specify a methodology to do that, and so each area has adopted its own methodology.

176 00:25:31.510 --> 00:25:43.109 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: We've worked with Oxford University that had an established methodology, that we kind of built on to make it a bit more Shropshire and Telf Frederican specific.

177 00:25:43.210 --> 00:25:44.730 Val Armstrong: That's true.

178 00:25:45.040 --> 00:25:53.969 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But everybody, every area has done something slightly different, which is good in that it's locally driven,

179 00:25:54.600 --> 00:26:04.160 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it's really tricky, because the end goal for Natural England, for DEFRA, is to have one whole map

180 00:26:04.940 --> 00:26:09.069 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: which sets out, this is the Nature Recovery Network.

181 00:26:09.350 --> 00:26:10.830 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: for England.

182 00:26:12.050 --> 00:26:20.040 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So what the LNRS is, is a strategy to prioritize and focus on specific actions, where they have the most impact.

183 00:26:20.260 --> 00:26:37.050 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And there are a number of mapped actions which appear on the map, and then there are a whole set of unmappable actions, and they only appear in the strategy document. And some people are saying, oh, well, you know, my land is not in the priority area, it's kind of showing as a wider area.

184 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:43.770 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And some people are finding that a bit disincentivizing, and maybe not acknowledging the good work that they've done.

185 00:26:43.840 --> 00:26:58.299 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: before, which I can, you know, I can understand is disheartening, in some ways, but, you know, that's our job. We can't map everywhere, otherwise we're not prioritizing anything, so we've had a job to do, and that's what we've done, using a kind of, you know, a robust methodology.

186 00:26:58.300 --> 00:27:03.859 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But importantly, there are actions that anyone can take anywhere. There is potential.

187 00:27:03.860 --> 00:27:14.360 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Anywhere. You know, we haven't mapped in Shropshire, we haven't mapped things like hedgerows, because they're beneficial wherever they happen. We haven't mapped,

188 00:27:14.600 --> 00:27:20.360 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Things like, enhancing nature on farmland.

189 00:27:20.390 --> 00:27:38.089 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So kind of reducing pesticides, or increasing, you know, kind of field corners for woodland or arable margins, or, you know, anything like that. Although they're, you know, fundamental and really important priorities, and arguably if, you know, if they were adopted wholesale across the…

190 00:27:38.090 --> 00:27:51.639 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: county could potentially have a, you know, absolutely massive, impact, because as soon as you've got, you know, insects and everything's got something else to eat it. But they're not mapped, so it's important,

191 00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:57.789 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: To, you know, to recognize that there are these two elements, the map and the strategy.

192 00:27:58.430 --> 00:28:16.999 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So it is producing guidance for anyone who's managing land, who wants to improve nature, and it is based on sound methodology, and each area will be different, and the methodology needs to be kind of shared and set out. We've put it as an appendix to our strategy.

193 00:28:17.540 --> 00:28:29.829 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it is mapping what could be there, rather than what is there, and yeah, it won't necessarily be right. There's not necessarily a right answer, because we're not mapping what's there, currently.

194 00:28:30.180 --> 00:28:33.570 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it is just looking at land through a lens for nature.

195 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.519 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It's not looking at it from a business perspective, or any other constraints.

196 00:28:38.780 --> 00:28:52.160 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it's, you know, it's an opportunity for landowners and residents to shape nature recovery, which is important. You know, if you're in an area where your consultation is out now, do take the opportunity to have a look.

197 00:28:53.580 --> 00:29:03.040 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So what it's not, it's not a designation, when you looked at the map, it's about 50% of the county that we've mapped.

198 00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:15.179 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: each area is slightly different, what's been mapped, but that's, you know, it's that sort of amount. It's a large area of the county, so it's not a designation.

199 00:29:15.370 --> 00:29:18.660 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it's not requiring anybody to take any action.

200 00:29:19.700 --> 00:29:34.609 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And there's no mandate for delivery at the moment. We're hoping that there is, and it sounds like it's coming from, I think from the planning bill, it was… it was kind of mentioned within that, and…

201 00:29:34.700 --> 00:29:49.940 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There are also links with the nature restoration levy that was mentioned in the, in the planning bill as well to the LNRS. So we're, yeah, we're expecting the LNRS to be, to be used, but we're waiting for that kind of future

202 00:29:50.120 --> 00:29:54.009 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Legislation to come through to kind of, back that up.

203 00:29:54.640 --> 00:30:11.489 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It's not perfect, no strategy will be perfect. Every data set is flawed, unfortunately, but we've done what we can do, to the best of our ability, and it's the best available to us right now. And each LNRS will be iterated, so this is its first iteration.

204 00:30:11.490 --> 00:30:14.649 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And the idea is that it's reviewed, so…

205 00:30:14.650 --> 00:30:22.049 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It's determined by the Secretary of State, but the window is, between 3 and 10 years.

206 00:30:22.050 --> 00:30:39.110 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: it will be reviewed, and the recommendation from the Office for Environmental Protection is that that review period is earlier rather than later, because this is new. And, you know, as soon as you start using something, you think, oh, that's what we should have put in it, or, you know, it's the same with anything.

207 00:30:39.380 --> 00:30:43.039 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: An early review would be helpful at this point.

208 00:30:43.410 --> 00:30:53.509 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: It's not a funded action plan, and it's not a grant provider, but it is meant, to be used to help, focus funding in the future.

209 00:30:54.100 --> 00:31:04.139 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And it's informed by wider environmental pressures, so, you know, we've got actions in there looking at reducing flooding, at, managing low flows.

210 00:31:04.190 --> 00:31:15.359 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: linked to soil health, health and well-being, but it's not a plan for each… for any of those. It's very much looking at, at how the land might support

211 00:31:15.450 --> 00:31:29.180 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: those broader outcomes, but, like, if you were to take a flood resilience plan, you would have some hard infrastructure in there, like walls and things, and it's, you know, it's not that. It's just drawn on, the environmental pressures.

212 00:31:30.430 --> 00:31:37.050 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Okay, that's me done, Janet. I'll hand over to you, but I'll keep sharing.

213 00:31:37.050 --> 00:31:39.390 Janet Cobb: You keep… if you keep managing the slides.

214 00:31:39.390 --> 00:31:39.790 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah.

215 00:31:40.110 --> 00:31:41.820 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: You just tell me when you want me to move.

216 00:31:41.820 --> 00:31:50.420 Janet Cobb: Okay. So, as Lynne said, she's the lead for the local nature recovery strategy in Shropshire, Telford and Recon.

217 00:31:50.920 --> 00:32:02.850 Janet Cobb: And the reason I got interested was twofold, really. I'm a parish clerk, but only for a parish meeting. But I'm also on the board of Middlemarch's Community Land Trust.

218 00:32:02.930 --> 00:32:22.260 Janet Cobb: So I was already interested in nature recovery. And Lynn and I had a conversation quite early on, where we talked about the engagement of town and parish councils in the local nature recovery strategy. So, Lynne, quite rightly, has been focusing on farmers and landowners. We're a very rural county.

219 00:32:22.350 --> 00:32:23.960 Janet Cobb: And,

220 00:32:24.530 --> 00:32:34.479 Janet Cobb: previous to developing the local nature recovery strategy, I was already working with some town and parish councils on,

221 00:32:34.600 --> 00:32:46.109 Janet Cobb: a project called Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project, so I'd already spent 18 months talking to town and parish councils about restoring roadside verges into long, linear meadows.

222 00:32:46.290 --> 00:32:53.880 Janet Cobb: So when the local nature recovery strategy work came along, we, as part of my work with Middlemarch's Community Land Trust.

223 00:32:53.890 --> 00:33:11.419 Janet Cobb: started to run some conferences, which were targeting town and parish councils… councillors, specifically. So we've current… well, we've run three conferences so far. We ran two in 2023, and our first big

224 00:33:12.010 --> 00:33:26.329 Janet Cobb: conference for Structure Association of Local Councils and the Local Nature Recovery Strategy last December, and we're about to run the fourth conference, which is on the 3rd of October this year. So, next slide, please, Lynne.

225 00:33:28.480 --> 00:33:40.959 Janet Cobb: So this is a… this is the program for our, conference on the 3rd of October, and we've structured it so that we've got, sort of, you know.

226 00:33:41.240 --> 00:33:53.250 Janet Cobb: well, local, important people to talk, and some national speakers. So one of the national speakers is, Dr. Jack Reed from the University of Exeter.

227 00:33:53.250 --> 00:34:01.810 Janet Cobb: I'll talk a little bit about that in a bit. And Tom Chance, who's the Chief Executive of the National Community Land Trust Network,

228 00:34:01.940 --> 00:34:10.339 Janet Cobb: I'd encourage everybody to look at both the links for those people after we've talked.

229 00:34:10.790 --> 00:34:13.329 Janet Cobb: And through this, slide.

230 00:34:13.530 --> 00:34:22.579 Janet Cobb: And then in the afternoon, we've been working with town and parish councils to try and get town and parish councils to develop bespoke nature recovery plans.

231 00:34:22.969 --> 00:34:33.370 Janet Cobb: So, we've been working with town and parish councils for about a year now, and now they're starting to develop clusters where they're working together to form,

232 00:34:33.820 --> 00:34:54.209 Janet Cobb: sort of green corridors between town and parish councils. We've got this fantastic network in Shropshire of town and parish councils of 184, and they're… because we're a very rural county, they're, you know, quite good at working with each other, and that's starting to come together now, and this programme

233 00:34:54.210 --> 00:34:56.730 Janet Cobb: Is something that could be repeated everywhere.

234 00:34:57.070 --> 00:35:07.030 Janet Cobb: If people are interested in, talking to us after this, I'm quite happy to help people put stuff together, or think about how to put stuff together.

235 00:35:07.240 --> 00:35:09.240 Janet Cobb: So, next slide, Lynne.

236 00:35:11.230 --> 00:35:22.859 Janet Cobb: So, we've also been working with Exeter University. So, Exeter University have been running this project called Nature Recovery and Regional Development. The link's there for people who are interested.

237 00:35:23.100 --> 00:35:41.030 Janet Cobb: And it talks about the 30 by 30 agreement. I don't know whether people know about the 30 by 30 agreement, but we've signed an international agreement to restore 30% of our land back to nature by 2030. Well, we're at 2025 now, so we'd better get a move on, I think.

238 00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:49.179 Janet Cobb: And there are currently 11 members of the Alliance, one of which is Shropshire.

239 00:35:49.310 --> 00:36:01.289 Janet Cobb: So, we've been sending case studies to Jack, an extra university about the work that's been happening in Shropshire, and hopefully these case studies are going to end up with DEFRA at some point.

240 00:36:01.290 --> 00:36:09.410 Janet Cobb: And they're nothing sort of sophisticated, they're just simple case studies mapping out the sorts of things that have been happening

241 00:36:09.410 --> 00:36:21.879 Janet Cobb: In town and parish councils here, so things like wildlife talks, putting up bird boxes, putting ponds in, planting hedgerows, restoring roadside verges, all the things that ordinary people can do.

242 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:26.049 Janet Cobb: And get, you know, get, involved in.

243 00:36:26.650 --> 00:36:43.050 Janet Cobb: So, next… oh, the other interesting thing, out of those 11 members in the Exeter University project, only ourselves and the Isle of Wight are, targeting town and parish councils to implement nature recovery strategies.

244 00:36:43.350 --> 00:36:50.270 Janet Cobb: So, we're… as far as I know, we're the only two,

245 00:36:50.460 --> 00:36:58.960 Janet Cobb: counters working in this way, and I'm very happy to, you know, share what we've done here. So, next slide.

246 00:36:59.130 --> 00:37:00.010 Janet Cobb: Lynn?

247 00:37:02.270 --> 00:37:12.380 Janet Cobb: So, as a result of looking at the local nature recovery strategy, and having talked to town and parish councils across Shropshire.

248 00:37:12.620 --> 00:37:27.069 Janet Cobb: what Lynn and I decided to do was develop this sort of a very simple work boot for people to work through. So all we've done is pull out the actions from the local nature recovery strategy that ordinary people can take.

249 00:37:27.140 --> 00:37:34.830 Janet Cobb: So there are things that, like what I mentioned before, about restoring verges, putting bird boxes up, putting a pond in.

250 00:37:34.890 --> 00:37:51.609 Janet Cobb: And extra things like develop a local tree nursery. So we worked out if, every town and parish council, for example, grew 200 trees, we could grow 38,000 trees across the county with local provenance.

251 00:37:51.780 --> 00:38:04.780 Janet Cobb: And, we… last year, we planted so many hedgerows, we ran out of trees to plant, or ran out of whips to plant. So, little actions can all add up to sort of big actions.

252 00:38:05.320 --> 00:38:20.750 Janet Cobb: Yeah, and we're lucky in Shropshire that we've got these organisations on the ground that we can work with, so we've got a Marches Meadow Group who are developing wildflower meadows. We've got Middlemarches Community Land Trust buying up land for nature.

253 00:38:20.750 --> 00:38:28.680 Janet Cobb: and creating stepping stones for nature. I'm sure everybody else will have organisations on the ground that they can tap into for support.

254 00:38:29.680 --> 00:38:34.629 Janet Cobb: So, I think that's all I want to say, really. I'm quite happy to answer questions.

255 00:38:38.230 --> 00:38:49.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Lynn and Janet, thank you so much. I thought, A, that was fascinating, B, it was very uplifting and reassuring, and C, I'm afraid I've written down on my piece of paper, who knew?

256 00:38:49.850 --> 00:39:00.509 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I'm even more fascinated to discover that the Isle of Wight is so targeting parish councils, because I'm on a parish council in the Isle of Wight. I've never heard anything of this, so…

257 00:39:00.510 --> 00:39:01.180 Janet Cobb: Oh, really?

258 00:39:01.180 --> 00:39:10.809 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I'm looking forward to finding out more and why we haven't been targeted yet. I do have a couple of questions, if I could get the ball rolling.

259 00:39:10.810 --> 00:39:23.039 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Please, which was way back at the start, Lynne. How does one actually find one's local nature recovery strategy organization? You say that there's 50 across the country. Who are they?

260 00:39:23.500 --> 00:39:41.059 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So there's a… there's a list, if, I'll… I'll go away and find it and post it in the chat. But Defra basically said, this is who they are, and there is a list online. It's a responsible authority list, so I will, I'll find it. Okay.

261 00:39:41.060 --> 00:39:42.510 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Oh, someone's already put it in, Jack.

262 00:39:42.510 --> 00:39:44.040 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Oh, there we go, brilliant.

263 00:39:44.400 --> 00:40:01.839 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: The second question I had was, you mentioned mapping as being important to you, and I wondered, has anyone made you familiar with the fact that parish councils are now able to map everything that you're doing on their mapping systems, because they're all compatible?

264 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:05.939 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: And has anyone approached you and said, would you please export what you're doing.

265 00:40:05.940 --> 00:40:11.929 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: To, parish online, so that local parishes can actually have your maps and work with them.

266 00:40:12.290 --> 00:40:21.830 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Oh, no, I didn't know that. And, that would be really good, yeah, so anybody, that asked for our map, could…

267 00:40:22.070 --> 00:40:35.270 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: have the, the files, they've been… they're kind of open source data. We… we bought a couple of data sets, but they were kind of used in the magic behind it, the kind of outputs don't need…

268 00:40:35.270 --> 00:40:38.600 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I'm very happy to work with you to help out there, but.

269 00:40:38.600 --> 00:40:43.549 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There is a lot that we could… it's also possible to make it two-way.

270 00:40:43.550 --> 00:40:51.680 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So if you want to update your map with what's happening in the local parish, that can be done electronically. So it's a two-way system.

271 00:40:51.680 --> 00:40:55.529 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Is that something that every parish council uses, or could use?

272 00:40:55.530 --> 00:41:07.520 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: At the moment, somewhere in the region of 2,500 councils are using it across the country, so there's still seven and a half to go, but we're hopeful. And,

273 00:41:07.530 --> 00:41:20.640 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: The third question I had was really for everybody, when it was triggered by A your discussions about funding, and B a meeting that I attended last night. I'm in the middle of doing some crowdfunding.

274 00:41:20.680 --> 00:41:34.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: And crowdfunder.co.uk said, we started 14 years ago as purely crowdfunding, but since then, a bigger part of our business has been distributing cash

275 00:41:34.390 --> 00:41:43.310 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: That corporations, local authorities, and central government make available, because they find it's an easy way of getting hold of people.

276 00:41:43.470 --> 00:41:52.689 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So, for those of you who are looking for money, if you log in and sign in to crowdfunder.co.uk, which is a free

277 00:41:52.690 --> 00:42:07.650 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: service, then they will, and you describe what it is that you're trying to do, then their system automatically will channel you to those sources of funds in your area. So, corporations might be interested in a specific place, like, say, Shropshire.

278 00:42:07.730 --> 00:42:20.719 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: But the government, or DEFRA, will say, well, we haven't heard from you, and we'd be delighted to support you. So I found this eye-opening last night when I discovered it. So I thought I'd just pass it on to everybody, that if you're looking for money.

279 00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:32.539 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Crowdfunder.co.uk isn't necessarily about crowdfunding. It is also just helping the government distribute cash to those people who should be getting it, but didn't know they could.

280 00:42:32.720 --> 00:42:46.409 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So I mentioned that. I'll put that in the chat in a moment. And then, thank you very much for paying attention to these wonderful questions from me, and now let's move on to the important ones from everyone else. And Stuart, you're first, please.

281 00:42:46.410 --> 00:42:51.469 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Hi, thanks. I'd just like to say thank you for two, fantastic presentations.

282 00:42:53.060 --> 00:43:00.160 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: One of my, interests at the moment is soil health, which I think Lynn was talking about quite a bit.

283 00:43:00.510 --> 00:43:04.629 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: A lot of our soil is managed by farmers.

284 00:43:05.000 --> 00:43:09.140 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: And I was wondering how you got on with the regenerative

285 00:43:09.290 --> 00:43:12.529 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Farming with your local, farmers?

286 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:27.000 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So there's a lot of interest in, in nutrigentive agriculture locally. It's a huge, big plethora, isn't it, of, of actions? Yes.

287 00:43:27.200 --> 00:43:28.700 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So we've…

288 00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:38.070 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: as part of the strategy, we've incorporated aspects, I suppose would be fair to say, within the strategy document.

289 00:43:38.070 --> 00:43:49.960 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There's a section on farmland, and, you know, there are priorities and actions, as there are in, you know, if there would be for grassland and woodland and wetland. So there's a specific section on farmland, and…

290 00:43:50.120 --> 00:44:00.189 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: The kind of regenerative aspects have been included within that, and we, drew on a couple of case studies to give people an idea of the sorts of things that they…

291 00:44:00.650 --> 00:44:05.480 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: That they could do to bring the kind of strategy to life a little bit,

292 00:44:05.760 --> 00:44:21.069 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But I suppose it's, it's in the round, in that, so it's… I suppose it's not the place to go if you were looking for, you know, loads of information on regenerative agriculture. I wouldn't say the local nature recovery strategy is… is the gospel.

293 00:44:21.070 --> 00:44:27.470 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But it's a really fundamental, important point of, important part of the LNRS.

294 00:44:27.640 --> 00:44:43.259 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Because such, you know, we're… I think 84% of Shropshire and Telford and Rican is farmland, and so, if people could move more towards, regenerative agriculture, and certainly kind of reducing, inputs, if that could be worked

295 00:44:43.260 --> 00:44:47.689 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: worked into their businesses, then that could have a fundamental impact for nature.

296 00:44:48.200 --> 00:44:52.970 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: But the government seems to be doing its best to deter them from doing it.

297 00:44:52.970 --> 00:44:58.759 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, I know, I know, and it's really frustrating, because, you know, I feel that we're standing up and saying.

298 00:44:58.810 --> 00:45:13.059 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: you know, do this stuff for nature, and at the moment, farmers are saying, well, there's no money. I'm gonna have to intensify, because I know that there's a market for sheep, because I can take them down to, you know, our local livestock market.

299 00:45:13.170 --> 00:45:20.660 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And I don't have an answer for that, because they need consistency and stability, and, you know, they need their business to be here next year.

300 00:45:20.850 --> 00:45:23.600 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So, it's quite a, you know.

301 00:45:23.810 --> 00:45:43.039 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: it's a sensitive time, and it's not easy, kind of, being here, promoting a… well, standing up in front of farmers, promoting a strategy which has come out from DEFRA, when they're saying, you know, I want to take some of these actions, but I'm not being supported. The kind of rug was pulled before I got there.

302 00:45:43.570 --> 00:45:50.180 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So, yeah, it is something that needs to be addressed, otherwise people are gonna go in the opposite direction, and that's a big risk.

303 00:45:51.560 --> 00:45:52.630 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Yeah, thanks.

304 00:45:59.000 --> 00:46:00.090 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Rome, obviously.

305 00:46:00.090 --> 00:46:03.249 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Oh, I'm so sorry, yes, I beg your pardon. David, go for it.

306 00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:05.050 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: All of a sudden, he's shot you.

307 00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:07.870 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: I know.

308 00:46:07.910 --> 00:46:11.420 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Andrew's visible… invisible arrow is hit.

309 00:46:12.160 --> 00:46:14.070 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So, David, please go ahead.

310 00:46:14.670 --> 00:46:15.740 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Yes.

311 00:46:16.230 --> 00:46:17.180 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): C…

312 00:46:21.930 --> 00:46:23.670 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Because this…

313 00:46:23.870 --> 00:46:38.680 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): nature recovery strategies being led by county councils, does that mean you have to identify the best places in the county which may not necessarily be the best places in the district or a parish?

314 00:46:39.360 --> 00:46:50.679 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So… I suppose the short answer is yes, in that the strategy prioritises at the…

315 00:46:50.790 --> 00:46:54.750 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: At the scale at which it's working.

316 00:46:54.940 --> 00:47:00.020 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But I would hope that there would be some throughput, and that…

317 00:47:00.880 --> 00:47:17.159 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: there's some similarity. I get it's a different exercise if you're starting at parish, and then working up to district, working up to county, you would end up with a different result, so it… I guess it depends on the methodology that's being used locally.

318 00:47:17.260 --> 00:47:31.189 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Here, we don't have district councils. We've got Shropshire Council and, and Telford and Recon Council, and then, the parish councils. So, we've used countywide, data sets.

319 00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:40.200 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And so we have prioritized at that level, but you would need to ask your local area to get a kind of definite answer for how they've done it.

320 00:47:40.530 --> 00:47:43.010 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: In, in your area.

321 00:47:44.300 --> 00:47:49.369 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Yes, I'm asking because I'm in an urban area, and developers

322 00:47:49.550 --> 00:47:53.919 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): allowed to compensate somewhere else in the whole county.

323 00:47:56.680 --> 00:47:59.240 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): As you… Today.

324 00:47:59.770 --> 00:48:11.389 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Baroness Willis put an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Law to say everywhere should be within 15 minutes of nature.

325 00:48:11.700 --> 00:48:17.289 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): Because of the decline in nature in urban areas like ours.

326 00:48:17.850 --> 00:48:23.560 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): And, but where we are.

327 00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:30.569 David Newman (Blackbird Leys): They're doing compensation in places you couldn't get to in 15 minutes unless you have a flying car.

328 00:48:32.540 --> 00:48:47.680 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, yeah, and that's… yeah, I mean, BNG's definitely got its… it's got its benefits, and it's better than it was previously, which is, you know, the damage happened, and there was nothing you could do about it. At least there's some recompense, but it's definitely got its flaws.

329 00:48:50.100 --> 00:48:52.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Elunid, may we move on to you, please?

330 00:48:54.850 --> 00:49:06.539 Eluned, Kingsthorpe PC: Yes, thank you. It's just two follow-up questions to the things that have been raised already. One was the mapping system, this parish online. How do… how does the parish council sign up to this?

331 00:49:06.950 --> 00:49:10.140 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: We will put the details in the chat, Lunid.

332 00:49:10.140 --> 00:49:26.430 Eluned, Kingsthorpe PC: Thank you, thank you very much. And the other question was, we are an urban parish, and we have got about a 10% tree canopy cover, which we're trying to increase to 20%. We have a plan, we've had it on hold now for nearly a year.

333 00:49:26.430 --> 00:49:42.629 Eluned, Kingsthorpe PC: But we're waiting for government funding, because the, the fund for trees was, withdrawn, and we're waiting for the new one. Have you got any news about when this might come out, or, or alternative sources of funding?

334 00:49:43.710 --> 00:50:01.560 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Well, so new… I've got no idea. So, I used to work for Natural England, and I, you know, in theory had meetings with DEFRA every day, and still only heard about new funding at the same time as it was announced. So I don't think anyone gets to hear about it unless you're in a very close circle.

335 00:50:01.790 --> 00:50:09.240 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I don't know. I mean, there would be…

336 00:50:09.550 --> 00:50:28.509 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I guess there's different benefits, so I suppose I'm just thinking from a benefit point of view, because you've got, you know, there's obviously benefit to people from a nature point of view, benefit to people from a cooling, urban cooling point of view, and pollution point of view, and…

337 00:50:29.150 --> 00:50:44.530 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I don't know where that… where those links would come through. The hard thing for street trees is that they're really expensive. I mean, it's something like £2,000 a tree or something, isn't it? It's like, it's so expensive, and so…

338 00:50:44.560 --> 00:50:57.150 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: the cost, if you're putting in a big tree, and then, you know, needing its water and, you know, all of that, is tricky. I don't know, other people might be a better place to answer. I have not looked for funding for street trees for a long time.

339 00:50:57.150 --> 00:50:58.820 Janet Cobb: Can I say a bit on that?

340 00:50:59.130 --> 00:51:13.039 Janet Cobb: So we started a Trees Outside Woodlands project in Shropshire, and there are four community-based nurseries. So funding came through the local authority. Tiny amounts of funding.

341 00:51:13.190 --> 00:51:19.980 Janet Cobb: And I started one of the nurseries here, so I'm growing 200 oak trees.

342 00:51:20.400 --> 00:51:23.550 Janet Cobb: with local provenance from acorns.

343 00:51:24.080 --> 00:51:28.880 Janet Cobb: They're sort of 2 years old now, and we're just giving them away for free.

344 00:51:29.160 --> 00:51:42.319 Janet Cobb: So, I mean, people can… if people wanted to, they could just start to grow their own trees. And it's much better to grow them locally with local provenance. So what I'm doing this year is going around veteran oak trees and collecting

345 00:51:42.490 --> 00:51:49.439 Janet Cobb: acorns from, you know, veteran trees that have got no… there's been no sort of succession planning.

346 00:51:49.510 --> 00:52:03.260 Janet Cobb: So we want to capture those genetics as well. Somebody put in the chat that the Tree Council… the Tree Council have done lots of stuff in terms of lots of talks and information on opening micro-nurseries.

347 00:52:03.940 --> 00:52:14.089 Janet Cobb: So, as I said, you know, if every town and parish council here opened a micro-nursery just growing 200 trees every year, we could grow 38,000.

348 00:52:14.600 --> 00:52:16.529 Janet Cobb: In the counter, every year.

349 00:52:16.700 --> 00:52:17.430 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Yes.

350 00:52:18.770 --> 00:52:24.120 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Hmm, yeah. It's a tricky one, though, isn't it? Because the trees are, you know, I think… I mean, I don't want to…

351 00:52:24.890 --> 00:52:38.219 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I think it's really good… there are so many important things in terms of local provenance and growing trees and making it easy and getting people engaged. The street trees is hard enough to trap because of the…

352 00:52:38.790 --> 00:52:47.540 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Of the… all the stuff that goes with it, because it just costs so much because of the contractors to put it into the concrete, effectively.

353 00:52:47.540 --> 00:52:50.589 Janet Cobb: It does make it cheaper doing it.

354 00:52:50.590 --> 00:52:56.159 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Small trees, if you can get it past the landscape people, because they don't need much watering.

355 00:52:56.160 --> 00:52:56.620 Janet Cobb: No.

356 00:52:56.620 --> 00:53:02.380 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: need as much looking after, and there's less failure rate, but they just look a bit pathetic.

357 00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:07.219 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I'm potentially more likely to get damaged because they're so little, but…

358 00:53:07.630 --> 00:53:11.069 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, it's a tricky one. I don't… I don't know what to suggest with street trees, so…

359 00:53:11.670 --> 00:53:14.380 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And they're really important. Urban cooling's massive.

360 00:53:14.380 --> 00:53:14.930 Eluned, Kingsthorpe PC: Yeah.

361 00:53:14.930 --> 00:53:16.869 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Gonna get more and more of an issue.

362 00:53:17.930 --> 00:53:19.769 Eluned, Kingsthorpe PC: Right, thank you very much.

363 00:53:20.480 --> 00:53:22.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Claire, may we move on to you, please?

364 00:53:23.530 --> 00:53:41.619 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Yes, my question was about, implementation, because the, Lynn mentioned that in the, LNRS, there's no mandate for delivery, so, we, we've had our local one in Westchester. I was out for consultation earlier this year.

365 00:53:41.660 --> 00:53:49.329 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: And it's got lots of fantastic ideas in there. But so, from what you say.

366 00:53:49.790 --> 00:53:51.979 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: At the moment, they're just guidelines.

367 00:53:52.390 --> 00:54:05.079 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: So I was just wondering that we are a parish council, and we are currently updating a neighborhood development plan. We've got the scope to put in some policies, under planning that would… that would actually have to be followed.

368 00:54:05.360 --> 00:54:13.930 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: I'm wondering to what extent we can use the LNRS document as evidence and support for our own policies?

369 00:54:14.420 --> 00:54:21.620 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, you can, and the LNRS has got, it's got some status in the planning,

370 00:54:21.810 --> 00:54:34.459 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: within planning, so, you know, it's a material consideration, and it has to be given regard. But it's not there to prevent planning, it's more there to inform planning.

371 00:54:34.620 --> 00:54:37.650 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: In that the LNRS isn't mapping

372 00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:41.110 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: necessarily what's there, it's mapping what could be there.

373 00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.330 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So,

374 00:54:44.240 --> 00:54:55.760 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, so in… so what I would put in there would be things like, looking at what, for your neighbourhood, what the LNRS is saying.

375 00:54:55.760 --> 00:55:09.229 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: If it highlights any particular places which are really good for biodiversity that aren't already, protected, then they're important to have that kind of enhanced consideration in the planning.

376 00:55:09.270 --> 00:55:14.859 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: within, you know, any, any planning, decisions that go on.

377 00:55:15.410 --> 00:55:25.359 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But also to look at where there's kind of been opportunity that's been identified, and using the… it's possible to use the planning system

378 00:55:25.710 --> 00:55:28.159 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: As a tool for enhancing

379 00:55:28.460 --> 00:55:34.540 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: nature, in that we need money. So if the planet… if some things are gonna happen anyway,

380 00:55:35.050 --> 00:55:37.170 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Then, arguably, if you've got a…

381 00:55:37.540 --> 00:55:47.860 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: a kind of green desert, depending on what's there already. You can enhance nature if it's, you know, we all know this, if it's thought about early enough, and

382 00:55:48.200 --> 00:56:07.700 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: and with enough care and consideration, then there's definite benefits for nature and for people. It doesn't mean that, you know, there aren't broader impacts, and that it then is a kind of land use change forever, and it might not be right for other reasons, but if the… if the planning, you know, if…

383 00:56:08.240 --> 00:56:21.049 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: whatever government says, you've got to have this many houses, then the LNRS, I would hope, would give some guidance as to how they could be planned more sensitively into the surrounds.

384 00:56:21.050 --> 00:56:25.439 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Sure, and we can certainly try and do this, but,

385 00:56:25.850 --> 00:56:38.910 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: If it's just guidance, I'm wondering how well it's going to hold, because in… what we've seen happen around the Cheshire villages, where land is quite… well, housing is quite profitable, is that…

386 00:56:38.910 --> 00:56:46.450 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Unless it's written in black and white in the planning policy documents, then it tends to be,

387 00:56:46.870 --> 00:56:48.470 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: disregarded.

388 00:56:48.470 --> 00:56:53.019 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: To a large extent, unless you're very lucky and your developer happens to be.

389 00:56:53.030 --> 00:57:07.260 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: To be one of a better kind, but, if they're not, then they… all the nice-to-haves will just get, binned, and they will only do what's actually set in… set in the letter of the planning law.

390 00:57:07.870 --> 00:57:09.570 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: I know, it's really depressing.

391 00:57:09.570 --> 00:57:10.260 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Right, okay.

392 00:57:10.870 --> 00:57:15.170 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Technically, it's trying to push back on planning applications and trying to write it into our policies.

393 00:57:15.170 --> 00:57:21.170 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And the neighbourhood plans are… they've got… they've got status, haven't they? So you'll.

394 00:57:21.170 --> 00:57:21.610 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Then, yeah.

395 00:57:21.610 --> 00:57:36.500 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: you know, there's loads of benefit in doing it and deciding how the development is going to happen in your patch, because then you've got some… some sort of control over it, but I know it's tricky. Yeah, we need a…

396 00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:41.009 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, we need a different solution, because we're not getting more land, are we?

397 00:57:41.190 --> 00:57:41.810 Claire Deruty, Cheshire, Kelsall Parish Council: Thank you.

398 00:57:44.020 --> 00:57:56.249 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Now, I have a hand still up from a lunad. Is that just a leftover, or do you have another question, right? Is there anyone else who would like to ask a question? Yes, Juliet, you're raising your hand.

399 00:57:56.250 --> 00:58:11.779 Judith Robinson: Yes, hello, I don't know how to find the hand on my computer to raise it. I was just wondering, was there any connection with health and health benefits that, might bring in another stream of funding?

400 00:58:13.590 --> 00:58:32.750 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, there are, I mean, there are loads of connections. I mean, there's kind of connections with the kind of physical health, so such as, you know, we're losing, we're literally losing people every year now because of heat, particularly in urban environments, and so that is a massive thing. But from a kind of health and well-being, perspective,

401 00:58:32.760 --> 00:58:45.469 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: there's, you know, I think that opens a whole raft of different funding opportunities, and I know that there are, you know, there are different, different projects around the country that are… are building on that,

402 00:58:45.750 --> 00:58:57.860 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: But there's also… Janet and I were speaking… have been speaking to the NHS from a kind of an estate management perspective as well, as a kind of, you know, a public body that has got land.

403 00:58:58.260 --> 00:59:02.390 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: And, you know, there are benefits

404 00:59:02.740 --> 00:59:13.410 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: kind of multiple benefits if, if health organizations can, actually enhance the nature around their

405 00:59:14.380 --> 00:59:21.209 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: the place where poorly people are, then they get better quicker. And there is more and more evidence to, to support that.

406 00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:36.330 Janet Cobb: So, so the sorts of conversations we've been having is, can you create a mini meadow in front of your GP surgery? Can you, instead of mowing and creating green deserts in care homes, can we have some trees, please, and wildflowers?

407 00:59:36.330 --> 00:59:53.529 Janet Cobb: Those sorts of conversations. So it's not rocket science, it's, you know… and oh, we also started a conversation with Connexus, which are our local biggest social housing provider. Could you integrate nature into your housing stock, and how to do that?

408 00:59:53.710 --> 01:00:05.309 Janet Cobb: So, you know, put up swift boxes, plant trees, litter pick, and plant wildflowers on derelict pieces of land. That just become a nuisance.

409 01:00:05.960 --> 01:00:10.060 Janet Cobb: So on and so forth. So it's not… none of it's difficult.

410 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:15.770 Janet Cobb: Did you find them responsive, Janet? Yeah, so far they're… yeah, they are interested.

411 01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:30.959 Janet Cobb: I think a lot of them are keen to become more popular, aren't they? Well, yeah, it's good, you know, it's a good news story instead of a bad news story. If you can create a mini meadow somewhere which has previously been an eyesore, then that's great.

412 01:00:31.550 --> 01:00:40.359 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: There are a few, in Oxfordshire, where you are, David, there are a few, GP surgeries that were part of it called Be Healthy, B-E-E Healthy.

413 01:00:40.360 --> 01:00:40.710 Janet Cobb: God.

414 01:00:40.710 --> 01:00:42.900 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Scheme that's set up.

415 01:00:43.300 --> 01:00:58.509 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: kind of really nice pollinator flower beds, effectively, just in front of their GP surgeries, as part of a kind of broader project, because of the benefits, and people, you know, it kind of… it takes that moment, that breath.

416 01:00:58.720 --> 01:01:03.609 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Which, you know, we're not very good at these days, because it's kind of head down, and…

417 01:01:04.860 --> 01:01:05.640 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah.

418 01:01:05.840 --> 01:01:25.660 Janet Cobb: So one of the big projects in Shropshire has been restoring the roadside verges to Long Linear Meadows, and we're just on the cusp now of trying to get the contract changed, because the local authority gave out a 10-year contract last time. So the contract's just up, well, up for renewal, I think it's just been extended another year.

419 01:01:25.750 --> 01:01:33.840 Janet Cobb: But what we want them to do is move from cut and leave to cut, collect, and restore. And in the end, that would save

420 01:01:34.020 --> 01:01:38.969 Janet Cobb: well, potentially millions of pounds. We've got a huge roadside network here.

421 01:01:39.200 --> 01:01:48.409 Janet Cobb: So, you know, and then, you know, all the benefits that come from that in terms of biodiversity and increasing the insect population.

422 01:01:49.340 --> 01:01:50.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Hmm, no.

423 01:01:50.040 --> 01:01:51.230 Judith Robinson: Wonderful.

424 01:01:51.230 --> 01:01:53.610 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Thank you. Stuart, can we move to you, please?

425 01:01:56.620 --> 01:02:07.240 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: On mute? It is basically another answer for Judith. It was an interesting study which I was looking at a few weeks ago.

426 01:02:07.570 --> 01:02:12.499 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Suddenly divided a group of young children into two.

427 01:02:12.700 --> 01:02:18.899 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: One was allowed to play in a standard sandbox for 3 or 4 weeks.

428 01:02:19.010 --> 01:02:24.619 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: The second group played in the same sandbox, inoculated with,

429 01:02:24.820 --> 01:02:39.030 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: with the soil, and all the native soil fungi and bacteria and things. And they found that the children that played in the soil-enriched sandbox had much better microbiomes and

430 01:02:39.410 --> 01:02:41.360 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Much better immune systems.

431 01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:42.420 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Wow.

432 01:02:42.910 --> 01:02:44.479 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: That's good, it's wonderful.

433 01:02:45.350 --> 01:02:46.040 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Yeah.

434 01:02:46.830 --> 01:02:48.659 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: So, go out and eat soil.

435 01:02:50.510 --> 01:02:51.130 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: So…

436 01:02:52.520 --> 01:02:57.799 Janet Cobb: some very interesting films on soil health, which I put in the chat earlier on.

437 01:02:58.050 --> 01:03:04.690 Janet Cobb: People want… one of the things that we would recommend is that you start showing those films in parish council meetings.

438 01:03:07.660 --> 01:03:10.430 Janet Cobb: Understand soil and how important it is.

439 01:03:11.030 --> 01:03:13.510 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Yeah, well, it's absolutely vital.

440 01:03:13.510 --> 01:03:14.290 Janet Cobb: Yeah.

441 01:03:15.970 --> 01:03:27.490 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Berlin and Janet, it's been a wonderfully uplifting session. Thank you so much. I found it very informative, very refreshing, and very encouraging, and lots of leads to follow.

442 01:03:27.680 --> 01:03:31.730 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: So thank you so much, and do come again next year.

443 01:03:31.750 --> 01:03:33.700 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yes.

444 01:03:33.700 --> 01:03:38.100 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Maybe there's some proper results. Yeah. Nice, wouldn't it?

445 01:03:38.410 --> 01:03:40.459 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Yeah, some change in delivery.

446 01:03:40.850 --> 01:03:51.470 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: In a change from my usual carefree manner, I am able to tell you that next week, we will be discussing local partnerships, which may well follow on

447 01:03:51.470 --> 01:04:04.649 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: from how you start pulling all these people together to get them to work together and to be able to, have larger amounts of money available to do things. So, do please tune in again next week, those of you who are interested.

448 01:04:04.820 --> 01:04:12.990 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: And if there aren't any further questions, let me just reiterate a big thank you, and hope to see you again in the future. Thank you for joining us.

449 01:04:13.230 --> 01:04:14.490 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Bye, everybody.

450 01:04:14.490 --> 01:04:15.290 Cllr.Stuart Withington, Gt Dunmow TC, Essex: Thanks very much.

451 01:04:15.290 --> 01:04:15.870 Graham Stoddart-Stones - Great Collaboration: Bye-bye.

452 01:04:15.870 --> 01:04:16.929 Lynn Parker, Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin LNRS: Thank you, bye-bye now.

453 01:04:16.930 --> 01:04:18.360 Val Armstrong: Bye.

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# Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Local Nature Recovery Strategy

## Slide 1

Lynn Parker, LNRS Co-Ordinator, [email protected]

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## Slide 2

Local Nature Recovery Strategy

Purpose of LNRS is to identify priority nature recovery actions across the whole county

48 being prepared across England aim is to have one Nature Recovery Network map for whole country

As per the legislation (Environment Act 2021) & Defra requirements

Designates

a responsible authority district / borough councils and Natural England

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## Slide 3

Why the need for LNRS?

It the What

2. Local Habitat Map t necessarily be .(e.g. arable could be mapped as grassland)

Looking at the land through a lens for nature, not from a business perspective.

Opportunity for landowners and residents to shape nature recovery

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What the LNRS is NOT

The map is not a designation

It is not requiring anyone to take action. There is currently no mandate for the delivery of the strategy

It is not perfect - the data we have relied on will never be perfect BUT it is likely to be used in future to help focus wider funding

It is informed by wider environmental pressures (flooding, drought, heat resilience, soil health, health & wellbeing etc) but it is not a flood resilience plan

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## Slide 7

Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)

IMPLEMENTATION LNRS

Support from Shropshire Association of Local Councils (SALC)

https://www.alcshropshire.co.uk/

and

Middle Marches Community Land Trust

https://middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk/

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Nature Recovery and Regional Developmenthttps://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY001508%2F1 EXETER UNIVERSITY

The United Kingdom (UK) has set ambitious targets to reverse biodiversity decline and ensure that 30% of land and sea is protected for wildlife by 2030, simultaneously contributing to reaching net zero, adapting to climate change and improving population health and wellbeing. This research project, entitled Nature Recovery and Regional Development (NaRReD), aims to ensure that we develop the research capacity and insight needed to successfully embed nature recovery in regional development policy and practice across the country.

Currently 11 members of the alliance; Cornwall, Cumbria, Dorset, Durham, East Riding, Herefordshire, Isles of Scilly, Isle of Wight, North Yorkshire, Rutland and Shropshire.

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## Slide 10

Simple workbook for Councillors