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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor A-M. Dermody

"To ask the Chief Executive to arrange for an inspection of the paths and trees in Boden Park. Please cross reference with the current Abrocultural Programme 2014 and confirm  which trees ought to be pruned or removed and a likely date for such works to be completed by.

A lot of the trees are over-grown now in the Estate and are in serious need of pruning.  The trees are blocking light at night time and they are also obstructing pathways and are damaging cars with sap falling onto cars parked underneath.

Residents were assured that ALL trees in the Estate would be pruned earlier in 2014, however this never happened.    Please at the same time inspect the paths throughout the estate and provide a time frame for including all such works on the Paths Programme.

REPLY:

Boden Park was scheduled on the Arboricultural Programme for 2014 but regrettably was not completed due to the redeployment of staff and resources to deal with emergency tree maintenance arising from storms at the start of the year.

A joint inspection of the trees and pedestrian paths within Boden Park estate has been undertaken by staff from the Council’s Public Realm and Roads Maintenance sections and a number of trees have been identified for removal to facilitate the repair of the pedestrian paths.

Boden Park estate is listed on the Tree Maintenance Programme for Winter 2014 / Spring 2015 and it is planned to undertake tree maintenance on all trees within the estate where works are considered necessary. This work is scheduled for completion in the early part of 2015.

 The priority for the Winter 2014 / Spring 2015 programme is to complete outstanding works from the 2014 programme which includes Boden Park.