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By Steven Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n Planners unanimously gave consent for a new community building at a Hindu temple.<\/p>\n The Hertsmere Borough Council’s planning committee officially granted planning permission for a new development on the grounds of Bhaktivedanta Manor, in Aldenham on Thursday.<\/p>\n The application is to build a two storey community building or a Haveli, as well as relocating the existing poly tunnels, greenhouses and playground.<\/p>\n Gauri das, managing director at the temple, said: \u201cWe are exceptionally pleased to receive planning permission to build our community facility at Bhaktivedanta Manor.<\/p>\n \u201cOver many years of work including the development of a planning brief, a public consultation, and one and a half years awaiting a determination, we listened carefully and patiently to local residents concerns.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the end the concerns were all addressed and thus the decision unanimous. We are extremely grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n The originally planning application was submitted in December 2014 and over the past 16 months a number of revised changes have been made to the application.<\/p>\n Cllr David Lambert, who represents Aldenham West, was originally opposed to the application following numerous complaints from the residents of Letchmore Heath.<\/p>\n However, during the planning meeting the officer Karen Humphries said the application has been accepted by the residents of Letchmore Heath.<\/p>\n Cllr Lambert said: \u201cI am really pleased we have reached this point.<\/p>\n \u201cIt would not have been successful without the work gone in by the officers. It has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n \u201cI commend the officer\u2019s hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n Other councillors agreed with Cllr Lambert including Cllr Seamus Quilty who asked the Manor to provide a master plan for the whole site and what they want to do in the future.<\/p>\n Temple president Sruti Dharma Das said: \u201cThank you to our local councillors and Hertsmere Planners, who worked hard to balance the needs of the temple and the local community.<\/p>\n \u201cThere could be no win lose decision here, it had to be a win win. We now have permission granted on the Queen\u2019s 90th birthday.\u201d<\/p>\n The application received an unanimous decision to allow the application to go through. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Planners unanimously gave consent for a new community building at a Hindu temple. The Hertsmere Borough Council’s planning committee officially granted planning permission for a new development on the grounds of Bhaktivedanta Manor, in Aldenham on Thursday. The application is to build a two storey community building or a Haveli, as well as relocating the existing poly tunnels, greenhouses and playground. Gauri das, managing director at the temple, said: \u201cWe are exceptionally pleased to receive planning permission to build our community facility at Bhaktivedanta Manor. \u201cOver many years of work including the development of a planning brief, a public consultation, and one and a half years awaiting a determination, we listened carefully and patiently to local residents concerns. \u201cIn the end the concerns were all addressed and thus the decision unanimous. We are extremely grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26788,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26786\/revisions\/26788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Hare](\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OMLBJuU.jpg\")
By Steven Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n