No to Brimingham, Dudly Mosque in Britain City Council

Britain does not allow any mosque to have any remotest resemblence to a mosque. Many just looks like an ordinary few story residential building.

Plans for a new mosque and community centre in the West Midlands have been turned down for the second time.Blatant Discrimination

Dudley Council refused permission on Monday for the buildings measuring 6,415 m sq.

Dr Kurshid Ahmed, chairman of the town's Muslim association, said the decision was "Islamophobic".

The council said its decision was based solely on planning reasons as the scale and design of the building would be out of keeping with buildings in the area.

Dudley Council says it plans to start proceedings to take control of the site of a planned mosque in the town in the absence of detailed proposals.

There is currently outline planning permission for a mosque on the site but no firm plans have been submitted.

The council has an existing agreement to reclaim the site from the Dudley Muslim Association if no new place of worship is built.

An association spokesman said they were in discussion with the council.

They still wanted to go ahead with a new mosque in due course, the spokesman added.

Outline planning permission ends in July next year.

If no firm plans are approved by then, the council says it intends to buy the site back.

The council originally refused outline planning permission for the Hall Street mosque in February 2007 on the basis the land had already been designated exclusively for employment use under the council's unitary development plan.
Plans to build an £18million mosque in Dudley town centre have been scrapped, the Express & Star can reveal today.

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Breakthrough in Dudley mosque row

Muslim leaders say they will consider another site for a mosque in Dudley in a bid to halt a costly legal battle with the council.

An artist's impression of how part of the mosque will look once complete.

They want to have fresh talks with council chiefs, despite their plans for a mosque on land off Hall Street getting the go-ahead earlier this week.

Dudley Muslim Association is locked in a legal battle with Dudley Council over the land earmarked for the 52-ft high mosque.

Despite winning planning permission the group won’t be able to build unless they win a Court of Appeal hearing, which will rule on the council’s bid to buy back the land.

The dispute has so far gone on for seven years and is next in court in February.

But today, Dr Khurshid Ahmed declared he wanted a sit-down with council bosses and said he would consider an alternative mosque site. He said: “I would like to see the council reflect on the whole issue and look at a number of options. One option is to continue the court hearing, which will be costly and will not solve community division, it could escalate it further.

“Second option is the council backs off from the court case and allows the community to build the mosque. The council have a third option where they can negotiate with all sides to find a viable resolution, which I think would be the sensible way forward.

“To continue with the case would cause a lot of expense on behalf of the tax payers, as well as for the Muslim association, we would rather spend the money on a mosque than solicitors.I would not rule out an alternative site if that was acceptable. For the sake of the community, if there was an alternative acceptable to the Muslim community, we would be more than happy to consider it.”

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Outline planning permission for the mosque, along with a community training and enterprise centre was granted in July 2008. The plan approved this week was for the full proposal, which included details on appearance and layout.

The land is owned by the association, but the council won a High Court hearing to trigger a buy-back clause for the land.

This was appealed by the association, and a hearing will take place at the Court of Appeal in February. If the council is successful the land will be transferred back into the council ownership.

If the association is successful, the matter will go to a full hearing in the High Court. John Millar, director of the urban environment, said: “The planning approval does not impact upon the council’s legal obligations with regard to the ongoing legal proceedings in respect of the buy-back.”