Mary Fisher writes

I doubt it - not only are your points valid, they're very common.

We've taken them down, there was a forest of them in our garden once. I'm
still cutting down seedlings.

There is the point that we're just outside a conservation area, if we were
across the street we'd have to have permission to cut any tree down.

Any tree over a certain size, surely? My mother used to grow a deodar
cedar until just before it got to the critical size, then remove it and
replace it with a younger one. But that was 40 years ago and things may
have changed
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Kay