A BID to build a traditional mosque in Camberley has been thrown out by a planning inspector.
Following a seven-day inquiry in April, inspector John Gray said he was dismissing the appeal by the Bengali Welfare Association to demolish a locally-listed school to make way for the new domed building.
In his decision, released on Tuesday (June 19), Mr Gray said he did not feel the benefits the new mosque would bring the town’s Islamic congregation outweighed the potential loss of the 140-year-old Victorian structure. [Get Surrey] Read more [via The Iconoclast]
