{"id":303943,"date":"2026-02-18T08:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303943\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:22:10","slug":"illuminated-market-harborough-park-friendship-sculpture-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/303943\/","title":{"rendered":"Illuminated Market Harborough park friendship sculpture approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The \u00a310,000 scheme, which replaces a mobile phone mast, is being paid for by developer contributions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planning documents stated: &#8220;The sculpture is intended to act as a focal point within Friendship Park, reinforcing its role as a public amenity space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The design incorporates perforated friendship-themed quotes repeated around the circumference of the column. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This perforation would allow natural light to pass through the structure during daylight hours, creating visual interest through light and shadow, while in the evenings the internal illumination would provide a subtle and contained glow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The proposed internal lighting would comprise three warm LED bulbs, ensuring that the sculpture is softly illuminated without resulting in excessive brightness or visual intrusion.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00a310,000 scheme, which replaces a mobile phone mast, is being paid for by developer contributions. Planning documents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-303943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}