I have previously written about the deplorable state some of the streets in Harrow are in and the council’s inability to get to grips with it, but now, after trying to get along Tenby Road early one morning, I have come to the conclusion that Harrow Council has given up trying.

Tenby Road was completely blocked, with a pile of mattresses and divan bases having been dumped in the middle of the road and just left there.

If you add to this that some of the local amenities are almost no-go areas — Molleson Way shops, benches near Queensbury Station and the area around B&Q’s warehouse — with large groups of men all with cans or bottles in hand at any time of the day or night. These are all then deposited on pavements, where they can stay for days or even weeks, and not cleared.

This is very frightening to the elderly and single women, who do not like having to pass these people.

Then there is the thorny problem of illegal car repairs going on in the alleyways behind Reynolds Drive and also in Dale Avenue, about which nothing is ever done.

The ongoing problems caused by the traffic and noise from the Hive in Camrose Avenue and, finally, the complete disregard of the law by transit vans being permanently parked on double yellow lines.

The council seems to have lost control in my opinion, and it therefore appears that its only current purpose in life is to extract council tax money from the long-suffering residents.

At the rate the borough is deteriorating, will we soon be living in a third world country.

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