.... Tablighi Jamaat, a Muslim missionary movement with 80 million followers worldwide and six centres in the UK, is trying to overturn an enforcement notice on its mosque, called the Riverine Centre, after temporary planning permission expired in 2006. The inquiry also heard that the group missed a crucial deadline to submit a plan for a permanent structure.
Proposals for a 12,000-capacity place of worship, boys' boarding school and community centre led to more than 48,000 people petitioning the government to block the development, dubbed the "megamosque". [guardian.co.uk] Read more
