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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, October 11, 2022

QUESTION NO. 7

QUESTION: Councillor Lyn Hagin Meade

To ask for the councils response to the felling of trees on the Lower Dodder Road along the Dodder Greenway cycle track in mid September 2022.

REPLY:

There appears to be some public ambiguity regarding the location of tree felling as part of the Dodder Greenway based on this question, and recent customer contacts in the same subject. 

There was no tree felling on the Lower Dodder Road. However, as part of the current works for the Dodder Greenway on Springfield Avenue, trees (as per image attached) were felled under the instruction of the project Arborist who has surveyed them and deemed the trees to be in poor condition.  He determined that the trees would not survive the works to the area, and in fact some have fallen over the last few years.

Mitigation measures are in place with additional tree planting to occur, the most appropriate location of this new planting is being agreed on site between the Landscape Designer and Arborist.