Madam, – How ironic that in National Tree Week, Dublin City Council should renege on its public promise to replace the mature trees it axed so brutally, without warning, on Synge Street last July.
Instead of replanting six to eight species as agreed with residents recently, the unelected bureaucrats in the parks department have now decreed that we are to get a sum total of two saplings.
Our Victorian street, birthplace of Bernard Shaw, has been defaced and vandalised by the parks department’s “scorched earth” policy of urban tree-felling, and instead of enjoying a leafy streetscape of eight fine elm trees, we now gaze out on a charmless and chilling, hard landscape.
Shame on Dublin City Council’s parks department. – Yours, etc,