{"id":12642,"date":"2013-02-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/02\/28\/tamil-hindu-temple-s-warehouse-plan-rejected-by-merton-council\/"},"modified":"2013-02-28T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-hindu-temple-s-warehouse-plan-rejected-by-merton-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2013\/02\/28\/tamil-hindu-temple-s-warehouse-plan-rejected-by-merton-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Hindu Temple&#8217;s Warehouse Plan Rejected By Merton Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislocallondon.co.uk\/news\/10247540.Tamil_Hindu_temple_s_warehouse_plan_rejected\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, ENGLAND, February 24, 2013 (This Is Local London): Nagendram Seevaratnam, with priests, will not be moving to an industrial estate in south Wimbledon. Plans to build a Hindu temple in an industrial estate have been thrown out, prompting the backers to blame to council for giving decision makers &#8220;flawed information&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Merton Council&#8217;s planning committee refused planning permission to the Sivayogam temple in Lyon Road, south Wimbledon, by converting a former shop fittings warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>The temple, founded by 74-year-old Nagendram Seevaratnam, will have to continue using its temporary site under a tarpaulin in Croydon, after it was evicted from its home of 17 years in Hebdon Road, Tooting, in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sarvesh Mathur, an architect who helped draw up the plans, said the council&#8217;s planning officers exaggerated the number of visitors who would visit the site. He said: &#8220;The planning officers report was completely flawed and wasn&#8217;t representative. When I presented I told them their facts were wrong, like how we were going to have 1,000 visitors every day, which is absolutely ludicrous.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation now is that we are trying to consider what the options are and decide whether we will appeal the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LONDON, ENGLAND, February 24, 2013 (This Is Local London): Nagendram Seevaratnam, with priests, will not be moving to an,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}