There has been criticism of what has been described as the widespread destruction of trees across Tralee with no consultation and with no replanting.
Green Party representative Anluan Dunne has welcomed a new bill for the protection of urban trees which will enable communities to designate local sites as being an important biodiversity area.
“This is a really welcome piece of legislation. We have seen widespread destruction of trees across Tralee with no consultation and with no replanting to date.,” he said.
“The Dan Spring Road is not the same since the beautiful poplar trees were felled,” he added.
Mr Dunne said what the means practically is that anybody in the community can request that their local council protects a certain local nature site. The local authority may then prohibit the wilful destruction of the site and landowners may have to enter into an agreement with the planning authority to properly manage the site.
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