Double Glazing Disaster For CMS

Our thanks to the members of the Muslim community who shared this information with us.

CMS Never learn

You’d think that after 5 years of run in’s with the city council, CMS would be more careful in relation to planning matters. And it’s all about the windows at the Parkway mosque.

In most cases, you do not need planning permission to install double glazing in a house, provided the replacement windows are similar in appearance to the existing ones.

However, there are exceptions, particularly for flats, listed buildings, and properties within conservation areas. The Parkway mosque is in a conservation area.

And it’s further example that the trustees of CMS, have failed to carry out due diligence, and act in the best interests of the charity. And it’s cost them thousands of pounds in unnecessary expense.

SASH THE WAY TO DO IT

So, back to the windows. At the front of the Parkway mosque, on the upper floors, were five wooden framed sash windows.

Now we’re not sure when the work was carried out, but early in 2025, CMS were invited to submit a retrospective planning permission for installing these charmless uPVC replacements. READ IT HERE

Now it’s hardly the crime of the century, but those lovely chaps in the planning department, refused the application, citing:

PETTY but correct

Given the more serious breaches of planning control that have happened at Hamptons, that were just swept under the carpet, we find the council decision to be quite petty.

We know that CMS have been invited to submit a planning application at Hamptons, to use an extra section of green space in the far corner of the site, but never got round to it.

And the council recently confirmed that the noisy refrigerated container is a breach of planning control, but have yet to receive a retrospective planning application, so why is it still there ?

As usual, zero enforcement at Hamptons.

But back to the windows:

CMS appeal the windows decision

Having wasted a fair chunk of change on a planning agent, who didn’t know the area, and placed the mosque in the wrong conservation area, CMS doubled down and appealed to the planning inspectorate in May 2025. Using the same documents that placed the mosque in a different conservation area.

The appeal was dismissed in August 2025 READ IT HERE

No doubt the chair of CMS has been phoning all his contacts at the Fib Dems, including our elected MP, to complain about this heinous miscarriage of justice. A clear case of Islamo-fenestraphobia

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT

Unless CMS fancy a judicial review in the high court (around £50K), they will have to source and install bespoke replacements for the wooden frame sash windows, and that won’t be cheap, possibly more than £3,000 per window, on top of what they’ve already spent. No doubt they’ll be squeezing the mosque members for more money to cover this monumental cock up.

Whichever charity trustee signed of on this, should resign

KBO