Labour's councillor Mary Arnold, in her letter ('Time to listen to residents', September 13), says "the new LibDem council leader, Paul Lorber, has demonstrated little interest and understanding about the area and its resident community....in fixating on capping the height of potential developments and showing little regard for any potential negative impact on the financial viability of south Kilburn's regeneration.... ".

First, it is the Libdems’ sensitivity to local people that probably swung the election result.

Secondly, the mess created by Ms. Arnold's party cannot be solved by building monstrous buildings to save the South Kilburn Regeneration's budget. People want proper measured programmes to suit the area and its people.

But there is a third issue. That is that projects should not go to companies that have managed to buy a car park in a crucial location.

The Genesis Housing Group did just that, and hundreds of people would have been condemned to a landlord who offers Annual General Meetings in secret, secret board meetings, no effective tenants associations, worthless annual conferences, accountability destroyed by ruining the shareholding structure, a valueless complaints procedure culminating in the Housing Ombudsman Service, worth less than a chocolate teapot.

Their regulator, the Housing Corporation, watched the crash of one of Genesis' former members, and continues to stare out of the window.

Brent council must let all housing associations and property developers know that if they buy small plots of land in strategically important areas that they will be buying into trouble

Peter Rutherford

www.ifgr.org.uk

Independent Federation of Genesis Residents.