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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE-TERENURE AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, April 09, 2019

MOTION NO.8

MOTION: Councillor E. Murphy

Cathaoirleach's Business

"That this Area Committee requests that in accordance with the 'whole estate' ethos of the Living with Trees programme that the remainder of Whitechurch Estate be added to the Tree Maintenance programme this year. "

REPORT:

 

The Council's Tree Management Policy 2015-2020 "Living With Trees", states that the focus of the Tree Maintenance Programme 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.

Whitechurch Way is listed for maintenance on the 2017-19 Tree Maintenance Programme. This maintenance programme is substantial and therefore it is not proposed to add the remainder of Whitechurch estate to the programme at this point.