بريطانيا: ضغوط جماهيرية لمنع بناء أحد المساجد

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تاريخ الإضافة: 1/2/2010 ميلادي - 16/2/1431 هجري

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لا تزال تصاريح بناء "مسجد كامبرلي" بمدينة "سوري هييث" بـ"إنجلترا" قيد الانتظار، بالرغم من إعلان المجلس المحلي للمدينة الموافقة على بناء المسجد في وقت سابق، إلا أن المجلس عاد وأعلن أنه لم يوافق بصورة نهائية على مشروع بناء المسجد، الذي من المتوقع أن يحل محل مدرسة "سان جورج" الكاثوليكية الابتدائية.

وقد أرجع المراقبون تغيير المجلس لموقفه إلى الضغوط التي يتعرض لها من قبل المعارضين لبناء المسجد، الذين أغلبهم من عامة سكان المنطقة التي سيوجد فيها المسجد، إضافة إلا أنه قد وافق أول الأمر مخالفًا في ذلك نصائح الخبراء، ثم عاد وأعلن عدم الموافقة، مما شكك في صدق موقفه ونواياه.

وقد تَعَجَّب القائمون على الجمعية الإسلامية - التي تتولى مشروع البناء - من موقف المجلس، وأعلنوا عن خيبة أملهم من تغييره موقفه؛ فقد أعلنت شبكة "بي بي سي" موافقته على بناء المسجد سابقًا، إلا أنه أعلن لاحقًا أن المشروع لا يزال قيد العرض على لجنة التخطيط، وأنه قد تم تحديد موعد للاستماع للموانع التي يتعلل بها الرافضون لبناء المسجد.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

New mosque approval' not yet finalised'

OBJECTORS to Camberley's mosque have a final chance to sway a planning decision that apparently allowed the controversial plans to go ahead.

Surrey Heath Borough Council apologised for the "confusion" on Tuesday, but pointed out that the mosque plan had not yet been agreed and would need a second hearing before a decision could be reached.

The announcement will come as a major embarrassment for the council after it appeared to many people at Monday's planning meeting that the mosque plans had already been formally agreed.

The apparent decision to allow the mosque to be built, against the recommendation of Surrey Heath's planning experts, led to a massive public outcry from people opposing it, many of whom had assumed the plans would be blocked.

Abdul Mojid, chairman of the the Bengali Welfare Association, had said the borough’s Islamic community were "over the moon" when it appeared the new mosque plans had been granted.

But the man overseeing the project for the association, Abdul Wasay Choudhury, said the confusion that followed was "heartbreaking" for them.

“It was crystal clear at the meeting that permission was granted, it was even on the BBC news”, he said.

“The next morning [Tuesday] the head of built environment for Surrey Heath, Brian Townley, was on BBC Radio Surrey’s breakfast show and clearly said they had given the planning permission.

“We had heard this rumour, then we find out it is not rumour. It is an absolutely heartbreaking thing”.
  "Minded to approve"
The council said it would write to objectors to the two planning applications that were considered at the planning meeting on Monday, one to demolish the old school building, which is in a conservation area, and the other to allow a new mosque to be built on the same site.

It said that although the committee was "minded to approve the proposals", planning permission could not be granted on the evening, and the applications were deferred and delegated to the council’s Head of Built Environment to finalise.

However, before any decisions can be issued, the applications will need to be referred back to the planning committee on February  8 , to allow objectors the chance to voice their concerns about allowing the scheme to go ahead.

Anyone who has already lodged an objection to the application will be contacted by the council and invited to register a request to speak at the meeting.

Four minutes
One nominated objector will get four minutes to try and express the views of those against the building of the mosque, before the applicant can respond for four minutes to put its side across to councillors.

Director of customer services Chas Bradfield said: “We are sorry for any confusion caused by the planning applications committee meeting yesterday [Monday] which may have given the impression that planning permission has been granted.

"The application will need to go before the committee at its next meeting to allow completion of the process for people to have their say and comment at the applications meeting before a decision can be finalised”.

Planning committee chairman Ken Pedder said that the move was "unprecedented", as the committee had never before voted to agree an application after council planning experts had recommended that they turn it down.

He said that due to the confusion, the fact that there would have to be another meeting to discuss the application, with the right to speak given to both sides, had not been made clear on the night.

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