Will someone explain this to me!!!

[Nosha123]

OK.. so how is it the Council wont let me extend my house by more than 30%... yet this Victorian building is apparently LISTED and they are likely to grant permission to knock it down and build a mosque!!!

Can someone explain how on earth this is allowed? Whats the point of a building being listed if you can knock it down! Listed is surely intended to preserve our culture and our history of British architecture!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk...nd/surrey/8482759.stm

[jake-the-peg]

We can't tell you why the council won't let you extend that much - why don't you tell us? Let me guess ... two story extension?

Listed buildings are there to preserve heritage but that's not absolute protection. This is probably just a grade II - the lowest level and the building may not have a valid use any more - If a church put in similar plans that would probably have been approved too

If anybody actually went to church!

That's not the point. The point is this is in a conservation area!

Building a domed mosque in a conservation area strikes me as completely inappropriate.

Read the article though

This has not actually been approved - sounds like someone talking out of turn to me

[Oneeyedvic]

http://www.english-he...server/show/nav.21244

How will listing affect me?

Listing is a tool to identify those buildings that should be celebrated as having architectural and historic interest, and where changes should be carefully considered. Listed buildings can be altered, extended and sometimes even demolished within government planning guidance. The local authority uses this consent process to make decisions that balance the site's historic significance against other issues such as function, condition or viability.

[youngmafbog]

Simple, one rule for one and another for the rest of us. Convert to Islam and be done with it.

[Oneeyedvic]

youngmafbog - why do you say that? Did you actually read the text in my previous answer.

It is obviously not different rules for different people - the heritage site itself states that listed buildings can be knocked down.

Your prejudice despite the facts astound me!

[Nosha123]

and as Jake states...
"Building a domed mosque in a conservation area strikes me as completely inappropriate"

I just dont get it.... I really dont.... Knock down part of our architectural culture and make way for something that isnt. Why does one have to be sacrificed to create the other? I think the old school buildings are lovely! Yes they may need restoration... but to knock it down seems a bit extreme!