{"id":7446,"date":"2015-04-09T12:39:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T12:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/edl-rally-against-muslim-cemetery\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T14:23:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T14:23:38","slug":"edl-rally-against-muslim-cemetery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/09\/edl-rally-against-muslim-cemetery\/","title":{"rendered":"EDL Rally Against Muslim Cemetery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Members to Gather in Protest Over Proposed Burial Site in Catherine-de-Barnes<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/edl-rally-muslim-cemetery-467x184.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe English Defence League has proposed a rally in Solihull to voice their objections over plans for a Muslim cemetery in a village near the area.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Members of the group intend to congregate in the town centre on Saturday, April 18 in protest to the proposed burial plots in nearby Catherine-de-Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Proposals for the burial ground were submitted to the Solihull Council for a third time, following two refusals of the plans last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery Development Services Ltd, the agent representing the applicant, has challenged the refusal, which was made on environmental grounds as the development would &#8216;blight Green Belt land&#8217;, and insisted that a need exists for a Muslim burial site to tackle a shortage of plots in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The initial application sought planning permission for 7,000 plots, which was reduce to 4,000 in the next application.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The most recent proposal requests permission to build a cemetery with 3,333 plots as well as storage, toilet facilities and a garden.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The EDL, which announced the demonstration on Facebook, said: \u201cThe Solihull Division alongside the United Midlands will be holding a local demonstration in Solihull town centre on Saturday the 18th April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason for this local demonstration is because of the third proposed Muslim burial plot in Catherine-de-Barnes.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have chosen to do the demonstration in Solihull town centre as Catherine-de-Barnes comes under the Solihull borough and we feel we will have more of an impact in the town centre than turning up in a small area a few miles down the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members to Gather in Protest Over Proposed Burial Site in Catherine-de-Barnes &#13; The English Defence League has proposed a rally in Solihull to voice their objections over plans for a Muslim cemetery in a village near the area.&#13; Members of the group intend to congregate in the town centre on Saturday, April 18 in protest [&hellip;]<\/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-7446","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\/7446","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=7446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7446\/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=7446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}