READ MORE:\u00a0The DunBear sculpture could find a new home in Dunbar<\/a>\n<\/p>\n\n \u201cHe has gone to a place of safety but will be re-erected when it is safe to do so.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cWork is going to be starting in the area and there will be machinery and everything else like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cDunBear will be back in Dunbar.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cHe is an essential member of the community as far as I am concerned.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Already, the surrounding area is home to a McDonald\u2019s drive-thru, an Asda supermarket and petrol station, and The Pine Marten hotel.\n<\/p>\n
\n Permission was previously given for a Marks & Spencer, Lidl and B&M on the site.\n<\/p>\n
\n Meanwhile, an application showing a Costa Coffee drive-thru, between McDonald\u2019s and the DunBear, also has permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DunBear, created by Andy Scott, whose other public artworks include The Kelpies and the Beacon of Hope,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-21808","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-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}