CAVAT Training

[David Humphries]

Thought I'd pass this on.....

 

Tim Moya Associates are holding training/introduction for "Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees" at Myerscough College in October.

 

Welcome to Tim Moya Associates: arboricultural & landscape consultants

 

 

London Tree Officer's Association - Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees (CAVAT)

 

Hope it's useful to someone

 

 

 

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[Paul Barton]

Nice one, thanks for posting Dave.

 

Have you done this course?

[David Humphries]

No Paul, not the TMA one,

 

but have attended a couple of London Tree Officer Association seminars on it.

 

 

 

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Think tree valuation is going to play a massive role in the future, might have to see about doing this one.

[janey]

I attended the TMA course last year (I have the cert' to prove it! ) and I have also been to a couple of the LTOA discussions.

 

It's a good course and an interesting tree management tool to be aware of. After all, how can you manage a set of assets if you don't have a comparable value for it in the first place? It is designed to work alongside the Joint Mitigation Protocol (JMP, naturally) when dealing with tree related subsidence claims in an effort to speed up and therefore reduce costs involve in the process. Dunno if that is something that you deal with.

 

It is also an excellent tool when negotiating with Planners and also trying to claim compensation for tree damage, as talking in terms of money is a language everyone understands, rather than the more vague "amenity value" etc.

 

(and TMA puts on a damn fine lunch spread ).

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im going to TRY and steer well clear of subsidence cases, and am more interested in the values attached to polution mitigation, human health including mental as well as social behaviour influences and eco system service values

[Amelanchier]

I attended the TMA course last year (I have the cert' to prove it! ) and I have also been to a couple of the LTOA discussions.

 

It's a good course and an interesting tree management tool to be aware of. After all, how can you manage a set of assets if you don't have a comparable value for it in the first place? It is designed to work alongside the Joint Mitigation Protocol (JMP, naturally) when dealing with tree related subsidence claims in an effort to speed up and therefore reduce costs involve in the process. Dunno if that is something that you deal with.

 

It is also an excellent tool when negotiating with Planners and also trying to claim compensation for tree damage, as talking in terms of money is a language everyone understands, rather than the more vague "amenity value" etc.

 

(and TMA puts on a damn fine lunch spread ).

 

I agree - putting a value on a tree makes it much easier to argue for its retention (or indeed a reasoned discussion about its worth in the light of other development options).

[Bundle 2]

First you gotta negotiate the minefield that is valuation frameworks..or am I being too cynnical?

Tim

[Amelanchier]

First you gotta negotiate the minefield that is valuation frameworks..or am I being too cynnical?

Tim

 

Naaah. Pick your system, name your value, stick in in your report. Its as subjective as the rest of the document - if someone wants to argue the point so what? They'll normally argue everything anyway, but at least you'll be talking tree value. Talking about it is the first step to admitting its there!

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Naaah. Pick your system, name your value, stick in in your report. Its as subjective as the rest of the document - if someone wants to argue the point so what? They'll normally argue everything anyway, but at least you'll be talking tree value. Talking about it is the first step to admitting its there!

 

The man makes a good point.

 

Do these systems take anything like metre squared shade area for cooling effect?

 

 

 

or is it just a load of made up lip service? amenity shmeenity?