Staines council-led developments put on hold to consult residents but delaying further could cost £15m
The moratorium does not apply to the private 14-storey Bridge Street development
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Staines residents protest against the Arora development; Cllrs John Boughtflower and Sinead Mooney are at the rear (Image: Residents Riverside Coalition)
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Traveller family s heartache over 17-year battle to live on their own land in Cambridgeshire
“We don t ask anything of anyone except the right to live on our land in peace.
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image captionPlans to broadcast calls to prayer submitted by the Masjid Ghousia mosque in Peterborough have been rejected
Plans to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer through loudspeakers three times a day to a city neighbourhood have been rejected.
The Masjid Ghousia mosque on Gladstone Street in Peterborough applied to the city council to install the speakers on one of its minarets.
Planning permission has been refused on the grounds it would be an unwelcome intrusion on the soundscape .
The BBC has contacted the mosque for comment.
The application was for the amplified call to prayer [the azan] three times per day every day (early afternoon, late afternoon and sunset) for between three and five minutes at a time from four speakers located on the top of the tower.
The HDT assesses a local authority s homebuilding performance over a three year period, while any falling below 95 per cent of set targets has to draw up an action plan.
Because Redbridge ranked at 56pc (for the three years up to 2019/2020), it is subject to this requirement.
An interim target of 75 per cent has been set for the capital s sixth worst borough, which the report concedes is unlikely to be met when the next HDT figures are published.
Therefore, this will create a Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development for housing schemes.
This presumption will not only be a consequence of current housing targets not being met. It is also set to reflect the fact that Redbridge faces a 23 per cent increase in those targets - up from 1,123 to 1,409 homes per year.
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