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The CAVAT Group is a pro bono initiative, seeking to ensure that CAVAT is an established, defendable system that can be relied upon to inform decisions about amenity trees. We encourage and facilitate CAVAT training, promoting the method to see it widely adopted as a complementary system for tree experts, decision makers, planners, and policy makers.

The CAVAT Group has membership from London Tree Officers Association (LTOA) and Municipal Tree Officers' Association (MTOA), plus representatives from the commercial arboricultural consulting and research sectors. Capital Asset Value for Amenity Trees (CAVAT) was developed by Christopher Neilan and LTOA in 2008, and is now regarded as one of the principal methods of tree valuation in the UK.

CAVAT provides a method for managing trees as public assets rather than liabilities. It is designed not only to be a strategic tool and aid to decision-making in relation to the tree stock, but also to be applicable to individual cases, where the value of a single tree needs to be expressed in monetary terms.

· Tree officers need monetary values for amenity trees
· CAVAT is a trunk formula valuation method adjusted for tree health and function
· CAVAT valuations adjust for human population density to account for all potential beneficiaries
· Compensation for damaged public trees has been secured using the Full Method
· Quick Method has informed urban forest succession planning and resource allocation