Volume 1 Written Statement

Chapter 10: Landscape and Natural Heritage
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Table 10.5 Priorities for Tree Protection: Individual Trees
Key Groups (North side)
Cathedral Walk
Gerald Griffin Street
Key Groups (South side)
South Presentation Convent
Nicholas Street
Victoria Road / Bord Gais
Greenmount National School
Lough Church Grounds
Quaker Burial Ground
Evergreen Road / Telephone Exchange Group
High Street / Windmill Road
Southern Road
Deerpark Mews
Belle Air Group
Marble Hill
Crab Lane
O’Donovan’s Road
Model Farm Road
Ashton School, Borreenmanna Road
Convent, Evergreen Road
La Retraite
Curragh Road
10.68 A number of large areas of the city suffer from low tree canopy densities (see Figure 10.5 and para.
10.21), including: Knocknaheeny, Blackpool Valley, Gurranabraher; City Centre; North Docklands;
Tramore Road area and South Mahon. The areas outside the City Centre are either industrial or early
municipal housing landscapes that now have the opportunity to benefit from new and enhanced
landscape structures through development or City Council initiatives. There are many smaller areas of
the city that have low tree canopy densities also and would benefit from carefully designed landscape
structure in any new development
10.69 Robust and appropriate levels of protection should be provided for trees and tree groups identified and
surveyed with a view to protecting the biodiversity value of these trees as well as the landscape value
of linking groups together to provide strong tree assemblages. In addition the general issue of health
and safety management of trees as well as staggered replanting in an urbanised area should be
addressed (See Chapter 16 Development Management paragraph 126).
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Objective 10.10 Trees and Urban Woodland
a. To protect and enhance the city’s tree and urban woodlands
b. To protect, survey and maintain existing important individual and groups of trees;
c. To make use of tree preservation orders to protect important trees or groups of trees which may be at
risk;
d. To ensure that new development benefits from adequate landscape structure / tree coverage, particularly
in areas of the city with inadequate tree coverage;
e. To develop an urban woodland strategy and to provide a resource to protect trees and tree groups of
significance, to manage existing areas with high tree coverage and to plant new urban woodlands in
areas deficient in tree coverage
f. To promote the planting of native deciduous trees and mixed forestry in order to benefit biodiversity.
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