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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

QUESTION NO. 5

QUESTION: Councillor D. Looney

"To ask the Chief Executive to arrange for an inspection of all trees and the public realm in the Cherryfield/Beechfield/Cromwellsfort Rd area to ascertain which trees need to be pruned, which need to be removed, and which areas are in need of planting; and for such works to be included in the 2017 Arboricultural Programme?"

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 is 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. The objective of this approach is to increase the efficiency and productivity of the tree maintenance crews and to advance a proactive programme of cyclical pruning that is targeted at priority locations where intervention is most needed to yield wider community benefit.

Street trees in the Cherryfield/Beechfield/Cromwellsfort Rd areas will be listed for inspection as part of an ongoing countywide inspection survey of all Council owned and managed street trees in order to determine the extent of the tree maintenance requirement in these areas.  Arising from that survey, any works considered necessary will be noted and prioritised accordingly as part of a future Tree Maintenance Programme for the areas."