Good News: Planners reject mosque application

[Christian Zionist]

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Planners reject mosque application
Feb 28 2007 By Dale Williams, Birmingham Mail

PLANNERS have sensationally rejected moves to build an £18 million mosque near a town centre.

Development control councillors at Dudley rejected the plan on the grounds that the land earmarked for the scheme should be set aside for industry to create jobs.

Planning officers had recommended that the committee give the scheme the go-ahead, but it would have been referred to national plan-ners for ultimate approval.

The scheme, submitted by Dudley Muslim Association, was to have transformed waste land between Flood Street and Hall Street.

Around 100 placard-waving objectors gathered outside Dudley Council House from about 5pm and a limited number were allowed into the public gallery.

Committee members, including the chairman, Coun Tim Wright, said they objected because the outline proposal flew in the face of planning guidelines.

He said the site was designated for industrial development and that the mosque scheme would have been contrary to the borough's Unitary Development Plan.

Dudley Council received petitions totalling more than 20,000 signatures and numerous letters of objection.

The scheme comprised of a £12 million community and training centre, two flats and a £6 million mosque with a 65 ft minaret.

It had been reduced in size from the development originally proposed. The association claimed there were special circumstances for granting approval for the project, which would have created 112 jobs.

They said the facility was "much needed" and that no alternative site was available.

Speaking afterwards, a spokesman for Dudley Muslim Association said he was "bitterly disappointed" with the decision and said the plan had been the target of a campaign by extremists.

UKIP councillor Malcolm Davis, who was among the leading objectors to the scheme, was met with claps and cheers as he left the council building.

He said: "This victory was a victory for the people of Dudley who have spoken out in their masses against this plan.

"The scheme would have been totally unsuitable for the area. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of support I have been shown. I was just a mouthpiece, a cog in the wheel.

"The committee has played fair and made the right decision based on the plan they had before them and stuck to the rules."

It is thought the applicants will appeal.

[angryChineseKahanist]

Having a mosque near you is like having a sewage treatment plant near you.

[Fruit of thy loins]

Development control councillors at Dudley rejected the plan on the grounds that the land earmarked for the scheme should be set aside for industry to create jobs.

Oh goody.  Instead of living near a mosque filled with Muslim maniacs we can have another little Anglo-Saxon slave factory which will probably only employ Poles, Indians and Eastern European foreigners. 

[New Yorker]

Having a mosque near you is like having a sewage treatment plant near you.

Yes but don't denegrate sewage treatment plants like that, unlike mosques, sewage treatment plants serve a very useful purpose for society, otherwise, the only things they have in common is the smell and the fact that excrement passes through.

[Angry Panther]

I don't like Mosques. Once you build a mosque, the next thing you know you have sharia law.

Was this the super mosque some delusional muslim nazi wanted to build in North England that I saw on a documentary on CNN?