North of Tyne Local Nature Recovery Strategy - Opportunities in the Wider Countryside

For the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) which was adopted in March 2026. This layer represents opportunities for nature recovery within the wider countryside, outside of the measures in Stage 5.

The LNRS identifies a series of measures which represent our highest priorities for action and form the core of this strategy. We know some of the important activity that can be, and is being, undertaken in the wider countryside in the North of Tyne area. Actions to benefit wildlife can and are being undertaken outside of these measures. Measures – both mapped and unmapped – represent our highest priorities. Such actions, although not an immediate priority in terms of this Strategy, can still represent a meaningful and necessary contribution to nature recovery and to the environment more widely. The aim of the documents are to suggest opportunities for nature recovery relevant to that location / area. Our focus is particularly on the farmed and afforested landscapes.

This dataset is based on the National Character Areas (NCAs), plus the marine area. Each NCA is defined by a combination of landscape, biodiversity, geodiversity, history and cultural and economic characteristics which have shaped the landscape over time. The North of Tyne contains 11 specific NCAs, five of which lie wholly within our area. These are:

* Border Moors and Forests
* Cheviots
* Cheviot Fringe
* North Northumberland Coastal Plain – part
* Northumberland Sandstone Hills
* Mid Northumberland
* Tyne Gap and Hadrian’s Wall – part
* North Pennines – part
* South East Northumberland Coastal Plain
* Tyne and Wear Lowlands – part
* Durham Coalfield Pennine Fringe – part

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