بريطانيا: بحث توسعة مسجد ليوتن المركزي أمام لجنة محلية

تقوم لجنة إدارة التطوير التابعة لمجلس مدينة "ليوتن" البريطانية الأسبوع القادم ببحث الموافقة على مشروع توسعة مسجد ومركز ليوتن الإسلامي، بعد حصول المسجد على موافقة العام الماضي، إلا أنه وجد حاجة ضرورية لمزيد من التوسعة لتشمل قاعات متعددة الأغراض؛ مثل إنشاء مكتبة وفصول دراسية، إضافة لمطبخ وأماكن لتجهيز الموتى وقاعة للجنائز.

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Mosque’s expansion plan set for approval

PLANS for a £2.5 million expansion Luton’s Central Mosque will go before a council committee next week.

Luton Borough Council’s development control committee will hear the plans to expand the mosque and its attached cultural centre in Westbourne Road at its meeting on April 20.

The mosque received permission last year to extend, but now wants to create a larger building and will need to demolish three neighbouring houses, instead of two.

The extension would house multi-purpose halls, a classroom, library, kitchen, three staff flats, a mortuary and ablution areas.

The council’s highways department raised concerns about the impact of the plans on Westbourne Road, saying: “There is concern that there will be an increased demand for the already oversubscribed limited amount of on-street parking in an area that is already affectd by the current level of activity associated with the mosque to the detriment of the highway safety and amenity.”

Planning officers have recommended, however, that the plans be passed, saying they are satisfied that “the majority of the congregation will walk to the mosque”, but have asked for a travel plan to be included with the plans and monitored in the future.

Mosque president Mohammed Rashid, said he did not anticipate extra traffic.

“A lot of the new facilities are for ladies and children, so they will be from the same families as the men, so there should not be more cars,” he said.

“It is a very big project and we are going to appeal to the community for funding. We are going to raise most of the money from the bank as a long-term loan, and we are hoping work will start in 2012”.