To build a healthy, resilient and thriving Adur & Ouse catchment, enabling partners, landowners and communities to work together with shared priorities, knowledge and resources, to deliver improvements at landscape-scale for nature, people and the water environment from source to sea.

Build water, land and climate resilience 
Support a catchment that is more resilient to climate change, water scarcity, flooding and other pressures. 

Protect and restore healthy rivers and nature 
Restore river habitats, water quality, natural processes, connectivity and wider nature recovery across our catchment, including interaction with the marine and coastal environment. 

Connect people, landowners and communities to the catchment  
Coordinate partnership messaging to strengthen understanding, participation including leisure activities, and local ownership of the water environment for enjoyment by all. 

Strengthen collaborative delivery and investment 
Connect knowledge, resources, projects and partners to enable more effective catchment scale action and collaborative delivery. 

You can view our Catchment Plan here.

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