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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 08, 2016

QUESTION NO. 4

QUESTION: Councillor S. Holland

"To ask the Chief Executive when the Rathfarnham Wood Estate Tree Pruning will be completed?"

REPLY:

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 approach will increase the efficiency and productivity of the tree maintenance crews and advance a proactive programme of cyclical pruning targetting priority locations where intervention is most needed.

Rathfarnham Wood Estate is included in the 2016 Tree Maintenance Programme. The trees in the Estate have been recently surveyed to determine the extent of maintenance works required and these works will be carried out during 2016.