{"id":449340,"date":"2026-05-28T11:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449340\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T11:15:10","slug":"bradford-city-of-culture-sculpture-to-stay-an-extra-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/449340\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford City of Culture sculpture to stay an extra year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The single objection to retaining the artwork said it &#8220;divides opinion and only serves to divide the community. It adds nothing to the cityscape&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But planning officers said art would always divide opinion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Approving the extension, officers said: &#8220;As stated in the previous officer report, as the sculpture is a piece of public artwork its design and appearance, like any form of art, is subjective with taste in art being a subjective matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tower was originally granted temporary permission because Hall Ings pocket park was to become a new gateway to Bradford Interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But with the future of the station uncertain, the area will remain a green space for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The single objection to retaining the artwork said it &#8220;divides opinion and only serves to divide the community.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360630,"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-449340","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\/449340","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=449340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}