Faith, planning and changing multiculturalism: constructing religious buildings in London’s suburbia

Ahmed, Nizam; Dwyer, Claire; Gilbert, David

doi:10.1080/01419870.2019.1649442

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“…Rising land costs and lack of suitable premises have made finding places of worship a long-standing challenge for minority faith groups and some Christian denominations (Becci, Burchardt, and Giorda 2017). BME communities have greater success in gaining planning permission for places of worship (N. Ahmed, Dwyer, and Gilbert 2020), but many mosques and temples have been opposed within the planning system because they are seen to "threaten" British society (see Gale 2005Gale , 2008Gale and Thomas, 2018).…”

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Death in the Peripheries: Planning for Minority Ethnic Groups beyond “the City”

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McClymont

Maddrell

et al. 2021

Journal of Planning Education and Research

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“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine the adequacy of existing provision for death, remembrance, and the disposal of body remains for ethnic minority groups living in four British towns: Huddersfield, Newport, Northampton, and Swindon. We show how the needs of ethnic minority groups are routinely peripheralized through a lack of acknowledgment of diverse cultural and religious needs. The paper argues that the failure of contemporary planning policy and practice to address the intersections between death and ethnicity has contributed to ongoing forms of exclusion from the British society.

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