The Lib-Dem authority declined to address Bowers’ comments.<\/p>\n
Its original planning decision said the proposed statue would “undermine the inclusive and neutral amenity value of a well-used public space”.<\/p>\n
“While the cultural intention of the proposal is fully acknowledged and respected, no compelling justification has been provided for locating the sculpture in this specific, highly sensitive position,” it said. <\/p>\n
It also said the sculpture would be best suited to a different area where it would not result “in such harm”.<\/p>\n
“The public benefit is not sufficient to outweigh the identified heritage impact,” it added. <\/p>\n
Days after the rejection, Bowers resubmitted the application for land at Salt Tip Corner, off Roman Road. <\/p>\n
He said the council told him it owned this land, but when he put the plans forward the authority told him it belonged to a different organisation.<\/p>\n
Bowers said he felt the council had “messed him around” and he withdrew the application.<\/p>\n
He said: “To define an artistic act as being damaging to the heritage of the area is factually wrong – we are part of the heritage of the area.”<\/p>\n
He said he still had hopes for the sculpture to be placed in Appleby at some stage and hoped to find a private land owner willing to host it.<\/p>\n
“By embracing diversity we become stronger and richer for it and the offer [to Appleby] remains,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lib-Dem authority declined to address Bowers’ comments. Its original planning decision said the proposed statue would “undermine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467979,"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-467978","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\/467978","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=467978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}