{"id":4820,"date":"2004-11-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/24\/2004-11-24-uk-hindu-temple-encounters-objections\/"},"modified":"2004-11-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-24T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-24-uk-hindu-temple-encounters-objections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/24\/2004-11-24-uk-hindu-temple-encounters-objections\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Hindu Temple Encounters Objections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.barnettimes.co.uk\/news\/localnews\/display.var.547116.0.\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>BARNET, ENGLAND, November 18, 2004: An eye-catching Hindu temple could soon be built in Golders Green after new plans were submitted to Barnet Council. The existing Shree Swaminaryan Temple&#8217;s red-brick building in Finchley Road would be demolished and replaced with a larger Ivory-colored stone structure, with traditional Hindu features. The 25-year-old temple won planning permission for such a building back in December, 2002, but has now lodged a new, slightly modified application. Residents living nearby are preparing a petition against the plan on the grounds of its appearance and a shortage of parking. &#8220;The people that attend seem very nice but it&#8217;s a major project totally out of keeping with the area,&#8221; said resident Zena Clayton. &#8220;Car parking will be problematic as there is not a big Hindu population in the immediate vicinity. They arrive by car instead, sometimes as early as 6 am. Applicant Laxmidas Dabasia, who attends the temple, said: &#8220;All we are trying to do is make a proper temple with an authentic feeling and aura which fulfils the needs of the local community.&#8221; A main reason behind the planned upgrade was the need to provide disabled access for users, he said. The council may not consider the application until early next year.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceBARNET, ENGLAND, November 18, 2004: An eye-catching Hindu temple could soon be built in Golders Green after new plans were,&#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-4820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820","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=4820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}