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Here's a few pieces about the traffic problems caused from the mosque being in a residential area.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/12947...e-of-the-west/

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/Counci...ing.6134277.jp

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article...0100301/3/3197

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Good point. one which I said earlier. it has to mean something, but it just gets ignored by the powers that be and the ignorants.

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would you like to read it properly

No Specifi c Class‘Sui Generis’

Churches and ChurchHalls

1 space per 3 seats

Churches shall have aminimum of 1 coach space

Minimum of 10 perunit

note the word MINIMUM

it doesn't make sense to apply a Maximum number of parking spaces why would any developer wether building a mosque or a supermarket have more spaces than required

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the mosque is built on the grounds of a small collection of industrial units owned by the L.A and sold to the mosque which caused a lot of controversy at the time with the ocupants of the units as for the houses they where demolished as part of the regeneration program as with scotswood

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minimum of 1 coach space, minimum of 10 cycle bays.
maximum of 1 space per 3 seats.
The reason for this is mentioned earlier in the document where it talks about encouraging the use of other forms of transport.

Look, I'll even quote from the second article you posted to make it clearer ok?

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Churches & Places of Worship – 1 space/5 seats or 5m2 public floor area

Am I working this out wrong? in the case of a 5,000 capacity mosque the maximum parking spaces is 1,000?

what's the minimum?

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So you can see the objection to the building of a mosque in a residential area more clearly now then.

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No. Unless you have allocated parking, your house does not come with a guarenteed parking space outside it.
Often our road will be full of other people's cars, unrelated to the mosque, people are just having parties or something else is going on, and I have to park one of my cars the other side of the road, or around the corner.
We could petition the council to make the road parking for residents only, or permit parking only, as anyone could.

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Everybody else can :)

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Sorry Gary, I expanded on my answer while you were replying.

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The expansion was there I just snipped what looked like political excuses out.

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Anyone who does object can put their reasons forward and attempt to get the plan rejected. It's been done successfully on several occasions.
Of course so far we've heard such great arguments against them as (to paraphrase) "they're so busy they impact on parking, but I don't know why they'd need another one a few miles away"

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They'd just class it as racist probably. unless it was Tescos, then the "they're so busy they impact on parking, but I don't know why they'd need another one a few miles away" would probably have the planning rejected.

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then how have several mosques had their planning rejected if such objections are just dismissed as racist?

http://www.lsjnews.co.uk/2009/10/15/...tion-rejected/

So there you go, a mosque rejected because of its impact on traffic and parking.

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Sorry Xaccers, I expanded on my answer while you were replying.

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So much for the minimum requirement of 0 parking spaces.

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It's easily done.

How do you work that out? It was rejected because the impact on traffic and parking in the area would have on the highway safety and amenities of the residents. No mention of a requirement for a minimum number of parking spaces that must be provided by the mosque.
It goes to show that in the areas where mosques have been built, they don't impact highway safety or the amenities of the residents in an unacceptable way.