The LNRS website can be accessed here
The LNRS is the island’s statutory nature-recovery plan. It sets priorities, lists practical measures, and provides a Local Habitat Map showing where action matters most. For applications, the expectation is you align your on-site design/BNG with these mapped priorities and measures.
Find out if there are Strategic Significance issues on your site
Open the Local Habitat Map and check your red-line boundary against the layers. A site is strategic if it intersects:
a) Areas of Particular Importance for Biodiversity (APIB) – designated and irreplaceable features; and/or
b) Areas that could become Important for Biodiversity (ACB); and/or
c) Mapped Measures (places the strategy pinpoints for specific habitat actions).
If you hit any of these, flag it in your submission and design for net-gain that helps deliver the mapped measures
Find out if there are habitats of importance
Read Part 2 – Priorities and Measures to determine if certain habitats are a priortiy - you can use these to develop proposals that the LPA will approve of!
If you would like specific guidance, please ask the chatbot and ask for a human to get site-specific support
