Trees to be removed at entrance to Laois housing estate

LAOIS County Council is to repair a boundary wall at Woodview Estate and Woodview Mews in Portlaoise. 

Later on in the year it will also remove trees that are adjacent to the entrance to Woodgrove Estate and cut back trees that are overgrown across the public street lights in the area.

So cllr Caroline Dwane Stanley was informed when, at the April meeting of Portlaoise Municipal District Council, she asked for the works to be carried out.

Cllr Dwane Stanley said: “Woodview Lawns, Mews and Estate were one of the ghost estate areas left behind after the (economic) crash in 2008. To be fair do, when the council took them in charge they carried out a lot of work on them. The main front wall, at one stage had to be replaced because it was leaning out onto the public footpath. There’s a small section of another wall, where there’s a couple of bricks out of it as well as a big crack that needs to be repaired.” 

She said that a number of leylandii trees in the area are also causing concern to some residents who have asked that they be removed. She said that further into the estate tree branches are overgrown onto and covering the street lights and residents are asking for these to be pruned back.

“The other thing,” said cllr Dwane Stanley: “As you go up along onto the Ballyfin Road and look at the wall on Woodgrove Mews all the plaster on it has fallen off. It needs to be put back on.”