Hedge Cutting
In the interest of safety of both residents and tourists a bare minimum of junctions and pinch points need to maintain a level of hedge-cutting especially during the summer “Silage Season” to enhance visibility and help prevent vehicle collision with injury and possible loss of life. Consultation with local residents and representatives would quickly identify such areas.
Roadside Trees
Kerry IFA request that the Council take responsibility to remove both large and dangerous roadside trees. In the interest of public safety, it is vital that such trees be removed by the state. We believe Kerry County Council are best placed to carry out these works in tandem with proper traffic management to allow the job to be done safely.
The costs to the landowners to take on such projects privately are completely prohibitive and at a time when farmers are being encouraged to plant trees, punitive legislation whereby such costs are put on the landowner are turning farmers off planting along roadsides. Clearing fallen trees off the road after they have come down naturally is not planning.