Having looked in detail at Taylor Wimpey's drawings, I must object to what is proposed. We are going to end up with many thousand "starter" homes, which might be suitable for young couples but not for families. It is now common knowledge that these large Builders are finding is exceedingly lucrative to cram in more and more of these tiny little boxes as they are benefitting from the Government's "Help to Buy" Scheme.

These large schemes should contain a mix of homes, suitable for all generations, and in particular thought should be given to those in the 60-85 generation, whose children have left but who by no means need the final step of McCarthy & Stone type accommodation.

There are so many of us, singles and couples, in large homes, with large gardens, which we would like to release for families. But there is very little suitable property available. We want to downsize - smaller gardens, just two or three bedrooms, but still with reasonable sized open plan living accommodation plus space for office/hobbies. Fit and healthy retired people, not short of funds, don't want to downsize to the thousands of tiny cramped starter homes now about to be built

But until good quality down-sizing homes are built, we will be blocking families from moving into our sizeable family homes.