Nature Improvement Plan
Our Nature Improvement Plan 2025-2030 outlines our strategy for halting the decline in nature and wildlife species across the district and working with nature to combat the climate crisis.
Nature Improvement Plan - Tackling the nature emergency, enhancing and protecting nature (PDF)
There have been significant national and local changes relating to nature recovery in the last four years since publishing our Biodiversity Action Plan 2021. The Environment Act 2021 places a strengthened duty on local authorities to consider biodiversity in all our functions, and the Environment Improvement Plan 2023 sets out new national targets.
The council demonstrated the importance of nature locally and the need for action to address its decline by declaring a nature emergency in 2023. Following on from the publication of our Biodiversity Action Plan, the Nature Improvement Plan 2025-2030 outlines a new approach to ensuring the delivery of nature improvement across the district. It establishes guiding principles for all council functions in relation to biodiversity and sets measures for the next five years.
The full Nature Improvement Plan 2025-2030 Technical Report is also available to download as a PDF.
If you have any questions about the Nature Improvement Plan please email naturalenvironment@winchester.gov.uk .