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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 09, 2016

MOTION NO. 10

MOTION: Councillor S. Holland

"Rathfarnham Wood Estate has suffered a crime spree recently and they have asked again that the trees be pruned back."

REPORT:

From 2016, in line with the Council's Tree Management Policy 2015-2020 "Living With Trees", the focus of the 2016 Tree Maintenance Programme and future programmes will be on entire roads or whole estates. This represents a move away from reactive pruning of individual trees on a one off basis to a planned programme of maintenance. This approach will increase the efficiency and productivity of the tree maintenance crews and advance a proactive programme of cyclical pruning targeting priority locations where intervention is most needed.

The Council is currently completing outstanding works from the 2015 programme and the 2016 Tree Maintenance Programme will be presented to the Area Committees shortly and published on the 'Trees' page on the Council's website www.sdcc.ie. This programme will be regularly updated to enable elected members and members of the public to readily access and follow progress of the programme.

Rathfarnham Woods was listed for whole estate work in 2015 and because of outstanding commitments for individual tree works on the programme, the estate has not yet been completed. The estate is currently listed for inspection of all of its street trees in the near future to determine the extent of the requirement for tree maintenance in the estate and the required maintenance work will be included in the 2016 Tree Maintenance Programme.