SIR – So an application to build an education and community centre on some derelict land in West Bowling could be turned down “over suspicions it would be used as a mosque”. (T&A, September 12).
The council’s officers say that if the community centre were to be used as a place of worship, this would cause disturbance to neighbours “in the form of cars banging, engines revving, talking in and around the residential terraced areas where parking would occur”.
I live in Manningham, where there are three mosques within earshot of my bedroom, their calls to prayer competing with the bells of my church. It all adds to the richness of the community’s life. If anyone revs their car engines, I can’t see what it has to do with the faiths worshipping outside my door.
No doubt in fairness the council will now turn its attention to the cars parking in Church Street, Manningham, which probably causes some disturbance to people wanting a Sunday lie-in opposite the church.
Karl Dallas, Church Green, Bradford
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