Dorchester’s mayor, Les Fry, proposed approving the plans at a Dorset Council planning committee meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Poundbury resident James Honeychuck, who submitted the application, suggested one side of the plinth was used for a poem, to be composed by the Bard of Dorchester.<\/p>\n
Supporters of the scheme include Lorna Dannerberg who lives in Scotland and holidays in Weymouth.<\/p>\n
She told Dorset Council: “We come into Dorchester especially to see Susie. <\/p>\n
“She has become a wonderful ambassador to the town.”<\/p>\n
California resident and online follower Jacqueline Londhair also wrote in support, telling the council: “Although I will probably never meet Susie in person, she brings such joy to me and others around the world every day.”<\/p>\n
Susie moved to Dorchester with owners Linda and Michael Crow when they came to stay with Graves, their daughter, in 2023.<\/p>\n
After receiving multiple calls from people believing she was lost, they changed her name tag to say ‘Susie – not lost, just adventurous’.<\/p>\n
Facebook followers share sightings of the cat, which also features in a children’s book, postcards and a calendar, raising thousands for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorchester’s mayor, Les Fry, proposed approving the plans at a Dorset Council planning committee meeting on Tuesday. Poundbury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510647,"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-510646","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\/510646","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=510646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}