COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

MOTION NO. 1

MOTION: Councillor D. O'Donovan

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That the Chief Executive undertakes to do a full review of the green spaces within the Beverly Estate in Knocklyon and to undertake all the necessary tree and hedge pruning."

REPORT:

The street trees in Beverly estate will be surveyed as part of an ongoing countywide survey of all Council owned and managed street trees.  This survey will be used to determine the extent of the requirement for tree maintenance in the estate and will inform the prioritisation of the estate in a future programme of tree maintenance for the whole estate.  There is a small number of large mature specimen trees on open space areas within the estate and these will be included in the tree survey to identify and plan for their maintenance requirements if required.

The informal hedge and tree row across the open space at Beverly Green is full of scrub and undergrowth and has also been affected by the dumping of garden waste, this area needs to be cleaned and the illegal dumping issue resolved.  The area will be cleaned and brambles and undergrowth cut back by the Public Realm Section in the coming weeks, the illegal dumping issue will be referred to the litter warden section and will be raised with the local residents association.  The screen planting on the periphery of the open space along the boundary with the M50 also suffers from issues similar to those at Beverly Green and it is proposed that this area will be dealt with in a similar way.

There are no obvious issues with regard to the maintenance of grass areas in the estate other than a parking issue which exists at Beverly Rise, with residents parking cars partly on the edge of the green space and causing damage to the grass in doing so.  The area would benefit from the provision of a row of parking spaces along the edge of the open space at this location and this proposal will be considered for inclusion in the Public Realm Improvement Works Programme in the future.