{"id":13136,"date":"2025-07-21T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13136\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:29:08","slug":"pier-and-sculptures-among-southends-30m-heritage-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/13136\/","title":{"rendered":"Pier and sculptures among Southend&#8217;s \u00a330m heritage assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After being informed there was sometimes difficulty in valuing assets such as statues, Ms McMahon said: &#8220;I explored it in comparison to pieces of work that had been purchased in the States and you were talking in millions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re not talking any less than that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;A piece of his concrete that was about one foot square sold for \u00a3100,000 in an auction, so quite valuable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The auditors&#8217; report said the authority&#8217;s land and buildings were revalued over a five-year cycle, with the pier subject to a full revaluation since the last report, said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/lnp\/ldrs\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year, the council committed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3gy73q04zzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more than \u00a36m to prevent the pier falling into the sea. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being informed there was sometimes difficulty in valuing assets such as statues, Ms McMahon said: &#8220;I explored&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-13136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}