Who this is for
Local authorities, lead local flood authorities, national park authorities, AONB teams, Natural England staff, Environment Agency teams, and any agency where landscape-scale evidence flows into decisions.
Connecting LNRS to action
Local Nature Recovery Strategies set the direction. Ecology App provides the surface that turns direction into delivery: connecting the LNRS down to the individual projects, landowners, and communities that carry it out, so engagement, permissions, funding, and prioritisation decisions all happen on the same map and against the same evidence base.
The platform supports decisions that are:
- Locally led — partnership coordinators, individual landowners, and community stakeholders all interact with the same map, at the level of detail appropriate to their role
- Traceable — every intervention, every commitment, every funding decision is recorded on the map with source, licence, and audit log attached
- Readily coordinated — multi-user access across statutory partners, delivery bodies, and grant recipients, with partial-coverage handled as the default
- Decision-ready — outputs sized to each decision context, from a single planning application up to a multi-catchment programme
What it does for you
- Mapping — Authoritative basemaps for planning, scheme delivery, and consultation.
- Flooding and wetlands — Catchment hydrology, flood risk evidence, NFM evidence for funding decisions.
- Species and habitats — Priority habitat baselines, BNG assessment where applicable, and the connectivity backbone underneath LNRS delivery.
- Revenue modelling — Scheme uptake forecasting, ecosystem-services valuation, blended-finance scenarios.
- Communities and collaboration — Multi-stakeholder coordination across the LNRS delivery network.
Example
A county council uses Ecology App to take its Local Nature Recovery Strategy from desk-drawer document to live delivery surface — landowner engagement, scheme uptake tracking, flood-risk mapping, and biodiversity baseline all on one platform, with the right slice surfaced to each stakeholder.