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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

MOTION NO. 11

MOTION: Councillor Peter Kavanagh

"This Area Committee requests a report on tree maintenance by contractors in the Clondalkin area on foot of complaints received from residents of St. John's Avenue."

REPORT:

The trees at St John's Avenue have been inspected. A contractor on behalf of the ESB carried out tree works on the trees on t John’s Avenue to maintain the electricity supply line. The ESB contracts tree cutting and clearing companies, who are trained to work safely in the proximity of power lines.

Utility companies have certain legal rights to carry out works to public or privately owned trees to address health and safety problems and to maintain a clearance between trees and their apparatus. This may sometimes involve the loss of trees or removal of large parts of a tree leaving a misshapen and unbalanced crown and reducing the amenity value of the tree.

The Council have been in touch with the ESB and the contractor and will arrange to meet them on site regarding the tree work undertaken on St John’s Avenue.