Following publication of the Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy, the Nature Recovery team at Kent County Council are now working with partners across the county to support delivery. To aid this, this page presents advice and guidance, to accompany the Strategy and support delivery. These toolkits will be added to during the life of the Strategy.
The Nature Recovery team
Kent County Council (KCC) is the Responsible Authority overseeing the delivery of the Strategy.
The KCC Nature Recovery team is in place to help facilitate stakeholders in delivering and embedding the Strategy.
The team are identifying where in the county work is being undertaken delivering on Strategy priorities and where the gaps are. This will help to clarify the focus of project facilitation. Please contact the team if you are involved in projects aligning with the Strategy or have projects you want to run.
Funding is of course vital and the team are already undertaking some larger funding bids, which if successful will allow multiple organisations to be involved in nature recovery projects.
The aim is to get as many nature recovery projects off the ground as possible, as well as supporting existing projects that are fulfilling the Strategy.
The team has prepared this range of toolkits to go with the Strategy to enable different sectors to take forward delivery. If there is anything you would like to see included on these pages or you have your own advice and expertise you’d be willing to share online, please contact the team at naturerecovery@kent.gov.uk
Advice and guidance already available - pages already featuring support tools
Delivering nature recovery through biodiversity net gain
The potential measures mapping has an important role in the delivery of meaningful biodiversity net gain. Biodiversity net gain is a mandatory requirement that aims…
Delivering nature recovery through farming and land management
This toolkit is designed to help farmers, growers and land managers explore practical ways to deliver nature recovery alongside productive farming and land management. If…
Prioritising action when more than one potential measure is mapped to the same location
In some locations, more than one potential measure is identified. This is to ensure that no opportunity for nature recovery is missed and that broad…
How does the Strategy inform what action and where?
The Strategy’s priorities and measures are framed spatially, taking what could be seen as an overwhelming list of actions and providing a county-wide plan for…
Delivering nature recovery within local planning
In February 2025, the government published updated planning guidance to outline the requirements in respect of the regard Local Plans should pay to Local Nature…
Delivering action for Kent and Medway’s priority species
Advice and guidance will be available from this page in due course. Kent and Medway Local Nature Recovery Strategy Priority Species Heat Maps Mapping of…
How to deliver the Strategy potential measures – practical guidance
In the drop down sections below, we have pulled together information from a variety of sources, to give you straight-forward practical guidance on how to…
Advice and guidance in preparation
Making space for nature within development
Delivering nature recovery in your community
Advice and guidance will be available from this page in due course.
Delivering nature recovery alongside health and access
Advice and guidance will be available from this page in due course.