[Tursiops2]

I've been doing some work in a friend's new garden. At one end of the garden, in an area destined to become a woodland/wildlife garden, the previous owner planted a weeping form of Goat willow (Salix caprea) known, I believe, as "Kilmarnock" willow. Personally, I detest these grotesque, stunted, virus-ridden distortions of nature and, from an aesthetic point of view, would be happy to get rid of it (my friend isn't bothered either way). However, S. caprea is a good wildlife plant (the bees have been enjoying the catkins recently) and I'm reluctant to uproot it unnecessarily, so I'd like to make use of it if I can.

My question is: what would be the effect of coppicing it? Would it revert to type, and send vertical shoots up from the base, or would the weeping habit manifest itself at ground level?
Or would something else entirely happen? Any thoughts?

Also, is S. caprea the only species of willow to be misused this way?

Cheers
T2