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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM/TEMPLEOGUE/FIRHOUSE/BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

QUESTION NO. 6

QUESTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

To ask the Chief Executive to identify possible locations in this Local Electoral Area where biodiversity meadows/areas could be planted.

REPLY:

A pollinator friendly planting scheme at the Hermitage ruins in Hermitage Park has been included in the 2021 Public Realm Improvement Works Programme which is due to be presented to the elected members at the February meeting of the County Council.  Also included this year is reseeding of the wildflower margin along the cycletrack and walkway between Grange Road and Grange Manor Estate.   A number of similar schemes have been carried out in recent years including the wildflower area in Firhouse Village which was in flower last summer, also a pollinator friendly planting scheme at the Anne Devlin statue and flower bed in Rathfarnham Village which was planted late in 2020 and will flower during the coming year.  

The process of identifying locations for biodiversity planting will continue and further planting schemes of this type will be proposed for inclusion in the minor improvement works programme in the coming years.  Any areas that elected members wish to propose will be examined and considered for inclusion in the following year's programme of works.