How long are the London boroughs going to continue to try to get a quart into a pint pot? How do they expect people to live in such close proximity to each other?

Each time I get a communication from our residents association, it is a list of companies looking to turn a small semi-detached house into four flats or to convert an office block into even more inferior housing.

And low and behold, the recent letter from Roxborough Road Residents Association is no different: ten flats at 8 Headstone Lane, 262 flats in Kings Houses, and 200 flats in Queens House. This is on top of the already proposed 70 new homes at the Harrow hotel and 318 flats at the old post office and all in an area of a few thousand feet where we already have a huge complex above the new Morrisons and an even bigger development not yet completed, just across the road.

It’s about time Harrow Borough Council gave consideration to its established residents and stopped trying to entice new inhabitants into an already over-populated area.

This type of development will only encourage further traffic congestion, overburden our social and domestic services and bring more criminal activity for our already stressed police force to deal with.

I have lived in Harrow for 15 years having moved here from Dorset. I suggest the Harrow councillors take a short drive down the M3 to see how planning is dealt with in a sympathetic manor with the community and the surrounding area.

Aldo Fortino

Roxborough Road, Harrow