The LNRS website can be accessed here.

GMCA’s LNRS is the statutory plan for nature recovery across the 10 GM boroughs. It sets the vision, priorities/actions, and provides documents + maps that show where habitat creation/enhancement will have the biggest impact. Use these to evidence alignment in your design, BNG plan and HMMP (link to full strategy and executive summary on the hub).

Open the GM Nature Network page and map. Check your red-line against:
• Core local nature sites (best existing wildlife sites).
• Nature recovery opportunity areas (places mapped for habitat creation/enhancement/connection).
If you intersect these, treat the site as strategically significant and show how your scheme helps deliver the mapped opportunities. GMCA states that areas in the Nature Network are “classed as strategically significant in the Defra Biodiversity Metric” and are particularly suitable for delivering off-site BNG too. Take layer screenshots for your evidence bundle.

Use the Priorities and actions/Strategy PDF to select measures that match your site context and any intersecting opportunity area—e.g., woodland/hedgerow connectivity, species-rich grassland, riparian and wetland works, urban green-infrastructure. Cite the relevant LNRS sections/layers in your BNG/HMMP