{"id":261254,"date":"2026-01-31T16:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261254\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T16:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T16:51:07","slug":"views-sought-on-netley-abbey-radar-inspired-seafront-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/261254\/","title":{"rendered":"Views sought on Netley Abbey radar-inspired seafront sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans for a 20ft (6.4m) high steel sculpture, inspired by a village&#8217;s World War Two history, have been released for public consultation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The work, commissioned by Eastleigh Borough Council and Hound Parish Council, would be installed at The Hard on Victoria Road in Netley Abbey &#8211; the site of a wartime radar station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Residents of Netley Abbey are being invited to share their views on the design by London-based artist Nick Hornby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The borough council said the work would be &#8220;a striking yet sympathetic landmark&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans for a 20ft (6.4m) high steel sculpture, inspired by a village&#8217;s World War Two history, have been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261255,"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":{"0":"post-261254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261254","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=261254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}