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On this one I have to insist.  If the only criterion for a CA is trees, they should be the subject of a TPO. My reading of 9.1 is that trees may make a contribution and indeed usually do. To be fair, I have no personal experience of extant tree-only CAs, nor of a CA being made solely due to trees.  I would be most interested if there are in fact any examples.

I recall one instance a few years ago now where a CA included the grounds of a large house that had subsequently burnt down.  The house was never rebuilt such that the land use was deemed to have been "abandoned" (a term that keeps planning lawyers in Jaguars!) and as a consequence the property was only trees.  However, as it was only part of a wider CA (they usually cover an area rather than an individual property) there was no particular anomaly.  I suspect that the opportunity to sort it out will be taken with the Local Plan review.

Jim Q