A nightclub has had its opening hours reduced following multiple complaints from neighbours about late-night noise and anti-social behaviour.

Club KTM, in Railway Approach, Wealdstone, must now close at 2.30am on Saturday and Sunday morning and 1.30am on all other days.

It must stop serving alcohol half an hour before closing and introduce an ID scanning machine to monitor who is coming into the club.

The decision comes following complaints from those living in nearby Saturn House, who said they have been woken on several occasions by those leaving KTM.

Nabil Freeman, one of those who called for a review of the club’s licence, described the previous situation as “unacceptable” and took issue with the dispersal policy.

Providing video evidence to Harrow Council’s licensing committee, he showed patrons making noise at gone 4am, fighting, blocking the road and urinating near his home.

He said: “Whatever is currently in place is grossly inadequate. If there’s going to be a change then it has to be fairly dramatic.

“When I look outside, I don’t feel like I’m in Harrow. I grew up here and it used to be a very different place. I hope we can come to a workable solution.”

He was supported by his neighbours, Daya and Uday Patel, who urged KTM to take genuine action to improve its management of the venue.

“Everything that goes on at the weekends is unacceptable,” Mrs Patel said.

“It’s great to say ‘sorry, we are trying to do this, or we are going to do this’, but what’s it going to take for this to be taken seriously?”

Duncan Craig, representing Club KTM, said it had “taken appropriate steps” to improve the situation and that this “needs to continue”.

He noted the team would be happy to introduce an ID scanner, put up clear ‘challenge 25’ signs and conduct staff training every six months.

The licensing committee put all these conditions in its decision and agreed to Mr Craig’s suggestion that the venue’s capacity should only be reduced on the advice of a fire risk assessor.

But it denied his calls for opening hours to remain as they were on Friday and Saturday, despite his point that this is key to the business’ success.

“Significant reductions in the hours were necessary to prevent or reduce alcohol-related incidents,” it noted.