Conference Summary – Coastal Habitat Restoration and Creation in North West England 2025

March 6th & 7th 2025, Carlisle

Conference: March 6th, Carlisle Station Hotel 

Site Visit: March 7th, RSPB Campfield Marsh

 

Programme

Please find the programme here:

Programme-CHCR-Conference.pdf (11 downloads )

Presentations

Welcome

Session 1: Coastal Restoration in Practice

CLEARcoasts Project, Shovi Anjum

Trialling Seagrass Restoration in Cumbria, Beth Churn

Fylde sand dunes project — Nature based solutions for dune creation, Amy Pennington and Andrew Singleton-Mills

Our Future Coast: Working with Nature to Safeguard Coastal Communities, Ellie Brown and Amy Collier 

Coordination of a Heysham Sediment Stakeholder Group, Lisa Reilly

 

Session 2: Local Nature Recovery Strategies

Cumbria Local Nature Recovery Strategy, Hui Zhang

Lancashire Local Nature Recovery Strategy: A view from the coal face, Tom Myerscough 

Local Nature Recovery Strategy in the Liverpool City Region, Joanne Doolin

 

Session 3: Natural Capital 

Investing in Nature for the North: A Strategic Plan for a Nature Positive Regional Economy, Stefan Ivanovic

Applying a Natural Capital Approach from Source-to-Sea: Blackwater and Colne Case Study, Jo Bayes

Wellbeing at the Coast: Links between culture and heritage and the seascape of the North-West Coast, Hannah Jones

 

North West Marine Ecosystems

North West Marine Ecosystems, Susannah Bleakley

 

Workshops

Workshop 1 Outcomes 

Workshop 2 Outcomes

 

North West Awards for Coastal Excellence

Details about the North West Awards for Coastal Excellence can be found here: Current Projects | North West Coastal Forum

 

Conference Close

Conference-close-slide-CS.pdf (16 downloads )