The “imperative to pray” could lead to parking chaos in the vicinity of a proposed new mosque in a Preston village, a public inquiry has heard. The claim was made during the second day of proceedings
examining whether the Brick Veil Mosque should be allowed to be built on land alongside the Broughton roundabout, where the A6, M55 and M6 all meet.
However, a transport planner appearing at the inquiry as a witness for Broughton Parish Council – which opposes the mosque plan – said he believed that the “turnaway policy” for people who arrive without having had a parking spot allocated to them was “one of the weaknesses” of a system that was designed to reduce traffic problems. Under cross-examination on Wednesday, Ian Millership said that the biggest of his concerns was “what happens to [the] person that’s turned away”.
The transport witness agreed that such an arrangement could be a way of dealing with the issue, but asked: “What will that person do once they leave?”However, Ian Millership said it was likely that they would instead just park on the cul-de-sac section of D’Urton Lane – even if that meant flouting double yellow line restrictions.
The inquiry also heard that the Friends of the Guild Wheel group had suggested how they wanted to see any risk to cyclists and pedestrians mitigated along the stretch of the popular walking and biking route that runs past the entrance to the proposed mosque.
He conceded that having two marshals either side of the entrance would mitigate that problem. Mr Millership was criticised under questioning from a D’Urton Lane resident, Jameel Murtza, for not having visited the site in person – and the local said that he wanted to fill him in on “some of the detail you seem to be missing”.
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