بريطانيا: التقدم بطلب لتحويل فندق قديم إلى مركز تعليمي إسلامي

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

تقدمت "جمعية الأنصار للخدمة الاجتماعية والتعليم" بطلب إلى مجلس مدينة "بريستون" البريطانية - لتحويل فندق "نيوديبدال" إلى مدرسة إسلامية مسائية لتعليم الشباب المسلم الذي تتراوح أعمارهم بين 14 و20 عامًا.

وجدير بالذكر أن الجمعية تشرف على مدرسة إسلامية خاصة لتعليم الطلاب الذين تتراوح أعمارهم بين 4 إلى 16 عامًا، ويتضمن المشروع الجديد اقتراح إنشاء عدد من الفصول الدراسية، وتخصيص عدد من أماكن إيقاف السيارات؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Islam centre plan for former pub

A pub that became the flashpoint for racial violence more than a decade ago could be re-opened as an Islamic education centre.

Preston City Council has received a planning application to turn the New Deepdale Hotel into an evening school for Muslim teenagers.

Al-Ansaar Welfare and Education, which already runs a Madrasa - an educational establishment - for four to 16-year-olds a mile away in Garstang Road, has applied to convert the pub into classrooms for 14 to 20-year-olds.

In April 2002 the Deepdale Hotel was claimed to be the seat of trouble which flared between gangs of white and Asian youths following a football match at Preston North End.

Running battles went on for five hours, starting outside the pub and spilling over into the city centre, before police managed to restore order. Nine men were arrested after what was described at the time as some of the worst violence seen in the city for years.

As a result the premises were shut down for three weeks and the landlord had his licence revoked.

The Deepdale Hotel, renamed the New Deepdale in recent years, recovered from the troubles and became a popular haunt for football fans, particularly on match day. But trade fell away and it closed its doors in May.

Locals believed the pub, for years wrongly credited with being the birthplace of PNE, had been bought for £350,000 with the new owners set to turn it into flats.

But local architects Cassidy and Ashton have submitted an application to the city’s 
planning committee to turn the premises into “a small education centre.”

Director Alban Cassidy said: “The education centre will offer evening classes to around 15 students at a time, aged between 14 and 20.

“At present there is no provision within Preston that allows this age group to complete college or school in the daytime and then attend evening sessions at an education centre.

“The proposals will convert the building into classrooms and create a small number of parking bays as it is anticipated that most students will walk to the education centre.”