A mosque is hoping to extent its opening hours despite a local petition against the plans. The Muslim Cultural Centre Wollaton on Radford Bridge Road is seeking to extend the hours of opening from 6.30am to 11pm daily with the exception of the Ramadan period in order to continue to open for morning prayer during the winter months.
But there has been some local opposition to the proposal, with a petition against it receiving around 70 signatures from local residents, and two noise complaints were made against the centre last year. Retiree Graham Garton, 73, who lives at the Westhay Court and helped to organise the petition against the extension of the hours, said that the plan was "unsociable".
"I am 73 and I'm one of the youngest living there [Westhay Court], they are homes for old people and we will have a lot of noise from people going in and out at unsociable hours. This has all been going on for years and we've managed to get yellow lines to try stop some of the parking, but people going there still park down the road," Mr Garton said.
