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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

MOTION NO. 7

MOTION: Councillor Yvonne Collins

That this Council arranges to properly prune and maintain the trees on Dodder Park Road given the importance of the trees to the area. Please see photos attached

REPORT:

Tree maintenance works were carried out by the Council on the trees on Dodder Park Road in 2020.  Subsequently the ESB arranged for pruning works to be carried out on these same trees where they are in close poximity to overhead power lines, and it is the pruning carried out by the ESB contractors that is at issue here.  The Council's Public Realm Section has raised issues of a similar nature with the ESB in the past and contact has been made with them in relation to this location to request that they address the issues that have arisen as a result of the work carried out by their contractor.  The Council will continue to pursue a resolution to this matter with the ESB to ensure that trees maintain an acceptable shape when pruned by their contractors.