The extent to which open space is actually used is largely dependent on it being private. Back gardens, where children can play securely while parents are busy in the house are vastly more used than open spaces dissociated from individual dwellings, for example, the silent greens in front on Pym court. I would therefore support houses with private gardens over flats with a large open play area. This concern also affects section 2.9 as the types of housing are described without any reference to the proportion of housing in the study area that they represent. Looking at the housing types, you'd think that half of the nearby area was made up of flats (4/8), and only a quarter (two types out of eight) were Victorian. In reality, houses, and specifically Victorian houses, make up the bulk of the housing in the local area and should therefore influence the development of the site proportionately.