Policy paper

Government response to the making space for nature review

Specific response to each of the recommendations in the making space for nature review.

This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

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Chaired by Professor Sir John Lawton, the independent review of England鈥檚 wildlife sites and ecological network considered whether England鈥檚 collection of wildlife areas represented a coherent and robust ecological network that would be capable of responding to the challenges of climate change and other pressures. 聽

Published in September 2010, the (PDF) review summarised what needed to be done in four words: more, bigger, better and joined, and set out some guiding principles and 24 recommendations.

Government鈥檚 broad response to the review is set out in the . 聽For further information, we have also set out below a specific response to each of the recommendations.

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Published 7 June 2011

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