Overview
- Natural England’s new corporate strategy, Recovering Nature for Growth, Health and Security, formally shifts focus from site-specific work to recovery across whole landscapes and seascapes.
- The strategy sets four outcomes: Recovering Nature, Building Better Places, Improving Health and Wellbeing, and Delivering Security through Nature.
- More than 200 organisations helped shape the plan, which stresses collaboration between public bodies, local partners and business to mobilize investment.
- Evidence cited includes peatland water filtration valued at up to £888 million per year and £25.6 billion in annual welfare value from access to green spaces.
- Case studies such as Boothby Wildland, Green Social Prescribing, the Poole Harbour nutrient mitigation scheme and the Bradford–South Pennines partnership illustrate delivery, alongside Natural England’s role as Lead Environmental Regulator for the Lower Thames Crossing and forthcoming Environmental Delivery Plans.