Issue - meetings

To receive a report from the Park Manager, Alexandra Palace, detailing the planning application for an extension to the secondary deer enclosure.

The Committee received the report of Mark Evison, Park Manager – Alexandra Palace, informing of the planning application for the extension to the secondary deer enclosure.

The Committee agreed that Colin Marr, Chair of the Alexandra Park and Palace Conservation Area Advisory Committee (CAAC), could speak informally at the meeting on behalf of the CAAC. Mr Marr stated that the deer enclosure already occupied a large area of the northern part of the Park and the extension would make a further area inaccessible to the public and would bring the boundary of the Park inwards.  The extension presented a risk to three of the mature oak trees and Mr Marr recommended reducing the size of the herd rather than increasing the enclosure.

In response to comments that there had been no consultation with park users, the Committee were informed that the deer herd had been part of the original site layout in 1863 and the 2002 Heritage Lottery Funding project consultation on the vision of the Park including a deer enclosure extension had been supported.

RESOLVED

That the report be noted and the Board be asked to consider the Committee’s comments.