Projects
Chalk Stream Mapping
Completion: March 2026
Area: River Rase, Bain, Lymn,Waring, Great Eau and Nettleton Beck
Project Type: Research
The project began in 2025 aiming to build on Natural Englands priority habitat layers of Lincolnshires chalk streams making sure chalk streams are properly mapped to help with future restoration and conservation.
Crystal Moss Animal Project
Completion: March 2026
Area: Greater Lincolnshire and Nationally
Project Type: Species Recovery
In 2023, we launched the Crystal Moss Animal (Lophopus crystallinus) Species Recovery project aimed at the translocation of a rare freshwater invertebrate funded by Natural England’s Species Recovery Programme, with the success of the first project this vital initiative is now in its second funding phase, benefiting the Greater Lincolnshire region and beyond.
Catchment Based Approach (CaBA)
Completion: Ongoing
Area: Northern Becks
Project Type: Catchment Management
The Catchment Based Approach is an initiative set-up to encourage a more civil society-led approach to looking after our rivers. There are CaBA partnerships working in over 100 river catchments across England directly delivering targets of the Governments 25 Year Environment Plan. In Lincolnshire, the Northern Becks catchment is involved in the CaBA partnership.
NFM in the Barrow Beck Catchment
Completion: March 2027
Area: Barrow Beck Catchment
Project Type: Natural Flood Management
The overall project aim is to reduce flood risk in the catchment and improve chalk stream habitat by using natural process to slow the flow of water and increase storage capacity. Alongside DEFRA, we are working with Lincoln University and Lincolnshire County Council in delivering this project.
River Waring 30 by 30
Completion: Ongoing
Area: Belchford, Lincolnshire
Project Type: Chalk Stream Restoration
In partnership with the Environment Agency, landowners, and Five Rivers, we are delivering habitat improvements along the River Waring and its floodplain at Belchford. Supported by Defra’s 30×30 funding, the first phase has seen the installation of five swales, riverbank reinforcement, and woody material additions to the chalk stream, with water vole surveys and eDNA assessments planned ahead of the next phase.
NFM on the River Rase
Completion: March 2026
Area: Ancholme catchment
Project Type: Natural Flood Management
This project is working to reduce flood risk in Middle and Market Rasen by using natural solutions to slow the flow of water upstream. Funded by Defra’s Environment Agency, with support from Lincolnshire County Council and the University of Lincoln, the project began in February 2024 and will run for around three years.
Tackling Himalayan Balsam
Invasive species on our chalk streams have a devestating effect on our native wildlife. The Lincolnshire Chalk Streams Project partnership works closely with landowners and communties to reduce the impact of invasive species.
Over the last 5 years the LCSP has been surveying, and with contractors and volunteers, reducing the non-native plant, Himalayan balsam, along the River Waring