While not a campaigning organisation, OLNP seeks to influence decision-making, putting nature at the heart of all policy areas where it can bring positive benefits. Better incorporating nature into the planning system is a key way in which to ensure nature is embedded in our built environment, delivering vital supporting services for society and providing health and wellbeing benefits to those who live and work in the local area, whilst also providing ecological connectivity and biodiversity uplift.
The Oxfordshire Local Nature Partnership's Nature Policy group is developing a checklist to enable the partnership to quickly and consistently engage with, and respond to consultations for, strategic plans and strategies such as Local Plans. This will be published and freely available, allowing LNP partners and wider stakeholders to understand our position on matters of policy.
This checklist is a way of ensuring the LNP's voice in such matters is consistently applied, transparently communicated, and widely understood at the earliest stages of drafting plans and strategies.
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