{"id":7443,"date":"2015-04-09T10:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T10:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/unauthorised-mosque-under-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:23:30","slug":"unauthorised-mosque-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/unauthorised-mosque-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cUnauthorised\u201d Mosque Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Solihull Community Hub Investigated For Breaking Terms of Planning Consent<\/h3>\n

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\nA local community centre is under fire following allegations that it has been turned into a mosque without permission. <\/p>\n

Solihull’s Community Hub, based on Hermitage Road, opened its doors as a conference and training centre last April but is now under investigation from Solihull Council due to allegations that it has broken the terms of planning consent.<\/p>\n

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A man residing near the Hub site said he had called police to inform them that approximately 300 people had attended the conference and training centre on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAt 9pm there were cars parked all over Hermitage Road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA neighbour said it had been going on since 6pm.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople were throwing abuse back and forth.<\/div>\n

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\u201cI called the police because I felt intimidated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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An online petition calling for the Community Hub to be shut down has been signed by over 1,000 people.<\/p>\n

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The petition’s states: \u201cSolihull\u2019s residents have not been consulted or informed of plans to turn the old ambulance station on Hermitage Road in to a \u2018masjid\u2019, otherwise known as a mosque.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt has been put forward as Solihull Community Hub and the planning application stated it would be a conference and training centre.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is not acceptable for this to have happened without the residents of Solihull being given the chance to have their say.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr Issam Ghannam, a Solihull Imam, said that Muslims from the area had to travel into Birmingham to visit a mosque and practice their faith.<\/p>\n

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He said: \u201cThere are 20,000 Muslims in Solihull and we haven\u2019t got a mosque here, it\u2019s how the regulations of the council are.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou need a lot of money and access for cars.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Andy Jones, who had signed the petition, criticised some of the comments posted on the document as \u201cbordering on racism\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He said: \u201cThis is not a point about race, it\u2019s about the fact that this building is being used for something that was not detailed in the planning application.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA true community centre would be beneficial for the area, if it is inclusive to the entire community regardless of faith, orientation or belief.”<\/p>\n

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Solihull Community Hub Investigated For Breaking Terms of Planning Consent A local community centre is under fire following allegations that it has been turned into a mosque without permission. Solihull’s Community Hub, based on Hermitage Road, opened its doors as a conference and training centre last April but is now under investigation from Solihull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443","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=7443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}