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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF LUCAN/PALMERSTOWN/NORTH CLONDALKIN AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

QUESTION NO. 12

QUESTION: Councillor L. O'Toole

To ask the Chief Executive to update members on progress made to date on the pollinator planting in the Lucan area, what areas have signed up and to advise what level of interest is evident to date. To help create additional awareness of this plan this committee asks that a drone video clip/footage is carried out highlighting areas that have the pollinator planting implemented and the areas proposed. To ask that members are informed of process involve to request an area / location to be assigned for pollinating.

REPLY:

A pollinator friendly planting scheme at Cherbury Park has been included in the 2021 Public Realm Improvement Works. This scheme has been implemented and areas of open space on both side of the N4 footbridge have been included. New areas of pollinator friendly bulb planting was provided at Adamstown roundabout, Fonthill/Coldcut Road junction and at the R148/Kenneslfort Road junction.

Lucan Tidy Towns, Palmerstown Meitheal Group, the Pink Ladies and resident groups in the estates of Esker Meadows, Tullyhall, Fforster, The Old Forge, Finnstown, Woodview Heights, Larkfield, Arthur Griffith, Whitethorn, Oakcourt and Adamstown have expressed an interest in pollinator friendly planting. Local depot staff have been working with the various groups to promote biodiversity and provide advise on how they can make improvements.

The proposal to use drone video clip/footage to create additional awareness of existing pollinator planting location or proposed location will be examined.

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 years programme of works.