tree felling can i stop it

old boy

my first post here, a local buisness man purchased a local farm, the old trees along the main road way has been cut down this week, tomorrow trees up the laneway i live are due for the chop, at the moment the crows are nesting, also no sign of rot on the stubbs of the trees, can i stop the trees on the laneway from being chopped, have i any rights, all the trees are mature, the ones on the roadway formed an arch i the summer time butiful to look at

sgt.bilko

yes you can do something.

Contact your co council 1st thing and inform them.

The person cutting trees needs a licence to cut mature trees.

bring a digital camera and take pictures of person cutting trees etc

kerrysgold

That's awful, definetly contact the Co. Co. I don't know why people feel the need to destroy the countryside even more.

GG66

If the person doesn't have a license you're perfectly entitled to ring the Gardai.

I don't know if the land is developed or simply farmland, but if he's felling trees on farmland you could be expecting a planning application....

Oldtree

Legal requirements for felling trees link:

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/index.jsp?file=pressrel/2005/160-2005.xml

You must Telephone Clare McCabe, Felling Section, Forest Service, Department Agriculture and Food (053) 916 0174 for advice and action by the Department.

A felling licence is routed to the department of agriculture through the Garda, so the garda should be called to halt any illegal felling.

No tree, in Ireland, over 10 years old can be felled without a licence, other than the few exceptions listed on the department website.

:mad::mad::mad:

djmc

I would ask the farmer first he might need to make room for machinery or a truck to enter the farm maybe he could just cut back some branches
There is no point falling out with your naubour if you dont have to

Oldtree

I think rookerys are protected too. but I cant put my finger on the information at the moment.

blackbox

You could buy the land. Then the trees would be your property and you could choose not to cut them down.

mukki

any update?

atlasman

Do you not realise that your this will restirct your rights?? You call for protection for the environment, exactly as the government want you to do. They will fulfill these requests all day long.

Wait until they are checking your boilers, windows and stoves.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-12-treecutting_N.htm

Protect your rights, not the trees.

Oldtree

The answer for you would appear to be don't buy a house with old trees around it, espec if you don't want the trees to grow bigger, which they have a tendency to do!!!

Nonetheless, don't panic just yet, no one said that the tree laws in Ireland are enforced, see:

http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2007/12/12/story39070.asp

gerky

atlasman wrote: »

Do you not realise that your this will restirct your rights?? You call for protection for the environment, exactly as the government want you to do. They will fulfill these requests all day long.

Wait until they are checking your boilers, windows and stoves.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-03-12-treecutting_N.htm

Protect your rights, not the trees.

I'm a bit of a privacy nut I don't agree with mass surveillance or any of that c**p but you want to be able to protect your right to mess up the environment.
How about you do your bit yourself and you wont have to deal with someone telling you to do those little things.
If I didn't know any better I suspect you were an old visitor to this forum.