Agenda item

Report of the Superintendent.

The Committee received the report of the Superintendent of Epping Forest informing Members of the level of dog-related incidents, which occurred on Epping Forest and the Buffer lands that had been reported to the Conservators from January to November 2013 and the number of prosecutions for dog related offences. The report showed that there was a varied degree of increase or decline in the figures shown for the five types of incidents monitored and that further monitoring was necessary to pick up any trends.

There had been 482 reported incidents from 1 January 2013 to 31 November

2013 compared with 396 for the same period in 2012, an overall increase of

21.7%.

Members noted that the report indicated the estimated dog visits per year; the percentage of reported incidents which included fouling was very low and not a major discussion point for the Committee.