Developing Your Local Nature Action Plans

17 Nov 2025

This webinar is designed to provide ongoing advice to councils and communities who are developing their own Local Nature Action Plan (LNAP).

The session will be led by Warwickshire Coventry and Solihull Local Nature Partnership | WCSLNP in partnership with the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust and the Warwickshire & West Midlands Association of Local Councils (WALC), and is open to parish and town councillors, clerks, committee or working group members as well as community organisations.

Why attend?

1. Expert Guidance and Peer Learning
Participants benefit from direct access to leading local experts as well as peer support, helping attendees learn from neighbouring parishes and successful local initiatives.

2. Alignment with the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS)
You will hear how Local Nature Action Plans (LNAPs) feed into the wider Warwickshire, Coventry & Solihull Local Nature Recovery Strategy, ensuring that local actions contribute meaningfully to countywide biodiversity and habitat restoration priorities.

3. Support to Deliver Statutory Biodiversity Duties
Councils and community groups gain practical tools, templates, and resources to help them meet their legal biodiversity duty effectively. The workshop will discuss how to integrate an LNAP into a Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) to give it more formal weight and planning relevance.

4. Community Engagement and Public Support
Local Nature Action Plans are designed to engage residents who are already concerned about climate change and wildlife decline. Through parish-level actions (like hedgehog highways, peat-free pledges, or swift-friendly villages), local councils can work with communities to contribute directly to nature recovery.

5. Access to Resources, Grants, and Collaboration Networks
Attendees learn about funding opportunities (e.g., through WCAVA) and other local partnerships.

6. Practical, Local Impact
Workshops showcase real examples of achievable local initiatives - from hedgerow restoration and pond restoration to wildlife monitoring and community planting - illustrating that small, coordinated actions can make a measurable difference.

Please click on the link below to be taken to the registration page. You will be asked to answer a few short questions online to help us focus the session. A link for the meeting will be sent to you a couple of days beforehand.

For queries please contact: rosemary.collier@warwick.ac.uk

Coventry Warwickshire & Solihull Local Nature Partnership
https://wcslnp.wixsite.com/localnature