{"id":28636,"date":"2019-03-04T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=28636"},"modified":"2019-03-04T13:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:20:46","slug":"planning-permission-for-new-mosque-submitted-after-being-rejected-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/planning-permission-for-new-mosque-submitted-after-being-rejected-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning Permission For New Mosque Submitted After Being Rejected Twice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to build a mosque on the edge of Birmingham are being resubmitted after have being rejected on two separate occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambian Islamic Centre is reapplying for planning permission to build a community centre and mosque on Bearwood Road, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/smethwick\">Smethwick<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>The previous application was rejected by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/all-about\/sandwell\">Sandwell<\/a>\u00a0councillors last year on the grounds of traffic congestion.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the third attempt to win approval for a place of worship after losing a planning appeal in 2016 to remain at its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/news\/midlands-news\/gambian-islamic-centre-reacts-claims-15062691\">former site in Windmill Lane, Cape Hill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, a spokesman for the mosque said the majority of worshippers lived in the local area and would walk or use public transport to attend prayers and meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Councillors on Sandwell&#8217;s planning committee rejected that application in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans to build a mosque on the edge of Birmingham are being resubmitted after have being rejected on two separate occasions. The Gambian Islamic Centre is reapplying for planning permission to build a community centre and mosque on Bearwood Road, in\u00a0Smethwick\u00a0. The previous application was rejected by\u00a0Sandwell\u00a0councillors last year on the grounds of traffic congestion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}