A CONTROVERSIAL plan to build a mosque on a derelict garage site in Brierfield has been turned down.

Neighbours living near the land off Halifax Road complained of a lack of information about the height and size of the proposed mosque and said there would not be enough car parking space for worshippers.

The Zeenat-Ul-Quron Trust said the mosque would be for no more than 200 people belonging to the Diuobandis minority sect who make up about five per cent of Moslems in Brierfield.

Mosque elders say they need a purpose-built building because health and safety legislation means worshippers cannot continue to use extended terraced houses as they do at present.

They wanted to widen the access to the site in Halifax Road by knocking down an electrical shop and to provide 30 places for parking, five of which would be for neighbours.

Potential developers have submitted planning applications for the site since 1989, the most recent of which was for a block of four bungalows.

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