Tree and Hedge Cutting

NOTICE TO LANDOWNERS AND OCCUPIERS OF LAND ADJACENT TO PUBLIC ROADS

TREE AND HEDGE CUTTING

The Roads Act obliges landowners and occupiers of land to take all reasonable care to ensure that the trees, hedges and other vegetation growing on their land are not, or could not become, a danger to people using or working on a public road. Examples of hazards might include dead or dying trees or hedges interfering with traffic, blocking footpaths, obscuring roadsigns or obscuring a view of the road ahead.

Sligo County Council requests that all necessary works are carried out to ensure all hazards and potential hazards are removed. Under the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2000, this work must be carried out outside the growth season, i.e. by end February 2010, unless the work is carried out for reasons of public health and safety.

T. Kilfeather,
Director of Services.

Published on the 24/02/2010