Agenda item

Report of the Superintendent of Epping Forest.

The Committee considered a report of the Director of Epping Forest on Deer Management of the South West Essex Deer Herd on the Buffer Lands and Epping Forest. The Director of Open Spaces noted that the Fallow Cull target was 86 for 2015/16 as per the report, rather than 105 as in the infographic.

RESOLVED, that

·         The cull minimum – in line with the Deer Management Plan - of 86 Fallow deer and an unlimited cull of Reeves Muntjac for the 2015/16 season be approved.

·         Further meetings between major estate owners of land within the range of the South West Essex Deer Herd – mediated by the Deer Initiative – to encourage increased cooperation on the overall management of the Deer Herd, be approved.

·         The adoption of a three-year licensing system in 2016 to help improve the management of infrastructure needed to support the cull be approved.