Another proposal to turn a town centre office block into flats has been submitted to planners.

Queens House, in Kymberley Road, Harrow town centre, is due to be converted into 64 self contained flats.

The proposals have been submitted to Harrow Borough Council’s planning department.

According to the authority there have been a total of 43 schemes of office to residential conversion in the borough, which will create more than 760 new homes.

Last year the government brought in measures make converting offices into homes easier wit the aim of providing more housing.

Developers now only need prior approval, rather than full planning permission, to get change of use from office to residential.

As previously reported by the Harrow Times, Harrow council long with almost every other outer London borough, asked the Secretary of State to make it exempt from these changes but the request was denied.

In the past concerns have been raised about the policy by London assembly member for Harrow and Brent Navin Shah and the Campaign for a Better Harrow Environment.