Habitat banks by Local Nature Recovery Strategy area
Every Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) area in England, with the number of habitat banks on the public register in each. 48 LNRS areas; 47 already have at least one registered habitat bank.
What an LNRS is, and why it matters for BNG
Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRSs) are the spatial planning instrument introduced by the Environment Act 2021. Each LNRS area is led by a responsible authority and covers the upper-tier local authority footprint, identifying priorities and locations for habitat creation.
For biodiversity net gain, the LNRS sets strategic significance: a 15% uplift on habitat that delivers a measure the strategy mapped at that location. Distance is priced separately, by a spatial risk multiplier that reads local planning authority and national character area, and waterbody and operational catchments for watercourse units.
Strategic significance is assessed where the habitat is, so a bank is judged against the strategy covering its own ground whoever buys from it. This directory lists every LNRS area in England and how many habitat banks are currently registered in each.
Looking for a different cut? Browse by LPA or browse by NCA for the two geographies that price distance, or see every registered habitat bank in one list, whichever area it sits in.
All Local Nature Recovery Strategy areas
B
C
- Cambridgeshire and Peterborough — 15
- Cheshire — 19
- Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly — 6
- County Durham — 10
- Cumbria — 5
D
- Derbyshire — 7
- Devon — 16
- Dorset — 4
E
G
- Gloucestershire — 9
- Greater Essex — 15
- Greater Lincolnshire — 12
- Greater London — 2
- Greater Manchester — 11
H
- Hampshire — 10
- Herefordshire — 2
- Hertfordshire — 8
- Hull and East Yorkshire — 3
I
- Isle of Wight — 5
K
- Kent and Medway — 16
L
N
O
- Oxfordshire — 10
S
T
- Tees Valley — 7
W
- Warwickshire — 9
- West Midlands — 0
- West Northamptonshire — 2
- West of England — 8
- West Sussex — 12
- West Yorkshire — 9
- Wiltshire and Swindon — 11
- Worcestershire — 3