Gathering your views for a nature-friendly Cheshire and Warrington

Help us understand how nature matters to you and what actions you think could be taken to help wildlife across Cheshire and Warrington.

We want to develop a blueprint (Local Nature Recovery Strategy) to help wildlife thrive, improve our ecological network, but also target investment in nature where it could help us adapt to climate change and improve the places we live, work and play.

If you are a Farmer/ landowner with more than one hectare of land, we’d also like you to register land where you might be interested in attracting investment to help with nature’s recovery.

Survey and public workshops

Thank you to everyone who took part and completed a survey or joined us at the public workshops to share your views.

We are analysing all the feedback received and an engagement findings report which summarises the key messages from the feedback will be available here in the Autumn.

Your views are important and what you have told us will be used to help shape the draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy, which we consult on over the Winter.

Pledge your action for Nature

Please join us and others in sharing what difference you intend to make for nature by registering this as a pledge. Pin this on the interactive map so everyone can see the huge number of actions we are taking together to make a difference for nature throughout the county.

There will be no deadline for the pledge for nature map as we will look to extract case studies throughout Cheshire to input into our final draft.

Tell us what actions you plan to take

*If the pledge is done on public land, please make sure that this will or has been given consent by the local authority of the borough.

Call for sites – to invest in nature

Would you like land you own to be looked at to see if it should be included in areas mapped as a priority area for investment in nature’s recovery? If so, register this land with us.

Sites will be kept confidential and not shared on any public platform. But knowing where landowners may be prepared to work with the local planning authorities within Cheshire & Warrington will help us map achievable priority areas to target vital improvements to the ecological network. Sites incorporated in broader published priority zones featured in the final strategy should find it easier to attract funding support, becoming a focus for Biodiversity Net Gain investment or the targeting of support from future Agri-Environment Schemes.

Please state in the contact details whether you are a tenant or the landowner. If you are a tenant, please confirm that the landowner is in agreement with your proposals.

Please see the document attached for some information on grants currently available.

If you would like help finding advice or support to develop your ideas and proposals, please let us know and we’ll try and put you in touch with the correct organisation that may be able to help you.

What happens next?

The public engagement report will be made available alongside the public workshops report in early September.

With your ‘Pledge for Nature’, we will hold onto your contact details, if you have shared them (as per our Privacy policy) for the next 2 years. Over the next 2 years, there might be an opportunity that we will contact you to see how your pledge is developing and we might use it as one of our case studies in the review of the strategy. Not only that, but you might be nominated for our Wilder Cheshire awards, which will be starting in 2026.

For our farmers and landowners that have submitted land where there’s an interest in investment or advice for nature’s recovery, we will be in contact after the first round of public workshops to get these areas mapped. We can then determine whether they qualify to be incorporated in our ‘opportunity mapping’ process. We’ll also seek to provide advice and information on who may be able to help with any specific ideas you may have. There is no requirement for the farmer/land owner to deliver the identified activity but we will support where we can to do so.

A public consultation on the draft Local Nature Recovery Strategy will take place in the new year.

Privacy Notice

If you would like to know more about how we use and store the information you give us, you can visit our privacy notice page.

Accessibility

Council information is also available in audio, braille, large print or other formats. If you would like a copy in a different format, in another language or require a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter, please contact us:

• Email: equalities@cheshirewestandchester.gov.uk
• Telephone: 0300 123 8 123
• Textphone: 18001 01606 867670