{"id":25515,"date":"2018-01-31T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=25515"},"modified":"2018-01-31T11:07:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T11:07:18","slug":"muslim-centre-education-prayer-room-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/31\/muslim-centre-education-prayer-room-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"A Muslim Centre for Education and Prayer Room Has Been Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A centre in Belgrave that applied for planning permission for a Muslim prayer room and education are set to be rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion Consulting Ltd wanted to convert a disused warehouse in Belper Street.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal has sparked huge number of objections from people living nearby as well as from others around the country.<\/p>\n<p>The following concerns were raised by residents:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worries about noise pollution and traffic congestion<\/li>\n<li>A lack of parking spaces in the small terraced street<\/li>\n<li>Fear it could create tension in predominantly Hindu area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Leicester City Council\u00a0has received nearly 1,500 letters of objection as well as a petition signed by 3,569 people refusing the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>A number of those letters expressed concerns about having a Muslim facility in the street but Hindu community leaders locally have insisted the religion is not at the centre of the objections.<\/p>\n<p>Leicester East MP Keith Vaz is opposed to the plan on the grounds of parking, noise and traffic problems it could create.<\/p>\n<p>After concerns were raised, Fusion has revised its plans ahead of a planning meeting last month where council officers had advised councillors to refuse it permission.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion said it would reduce its planned opening hours from 6am to 11pm, Monday to Friday, to 8.30am to 7.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>The centre, which would have a nursery, would be open from 10.30am to 1.30pm on Saturdays and not at all on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant has said there is ample parking in Belper Street and nearby Surrey Street and has said it would provide a traffic marshal to prevent problems.<\/p>\n<p>Fusion also said there would no noisy activity such as fireworks and the call to prayer and stressed there were no long-term plans to open a mosque in the street.<\/p>\n<p>Around 350 representations have backed the idea saying the centre would provide an educational and care facility for local Muslims and that objections were based on fears it will be a mosque<\/p>\n<p>The planning officers have still recommended the plan be turned down.<\/p>\n<p>A council planning spokesman said: \u201cAs a result of the proposed uses, the combination of those uses, the nature of the property and its location, the proposal would result in unreasonably increased on-street activity and noise from people and vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis would result in significant harm to the residential amenity conditions of nearby residents and other users of the street.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A centre in Belgrave that applied for planning permission for a Muslim prayer room and education are set to be rejected. Fusion Consulting Ltd wanted to convert a disused warehouse in Belper Street. The proposal has sparked huge number of objections from people living nearby as well as from others around the country. 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