Roe, Aspinall and Ward Thompson complicate restoration by showing that the same neighbourhood environment does not afford the same coping strategies to everyone. Latent Class Analysis identifies different health and age clusters within deprived communities and relates them to scenarios such as walking, seeking company, seeking quiet or remaining at home. Green space is therefore conceptualised as an affordance rather than a universal dose. Its restorative potential depends on life stage, health, social circumstances and actual patterns of use. The paper’s theoretical contribution is to replace exposure with opportunity: an environment matters through what it makes possible for particular bodies and situations. Methodologically, the latent-class approach refuses the average urban resident as the only meaningful unit of analysis. The bridge to architecture and planning follows directly. Designing or counting green space without understanding differentiated use may produce formally equal but experientially unequal environments. Spatial justice requires attention to how environmental possibilities are activated, refused or rendered inaccessible across heterogeneous populations.
