{"id":20673,"date":"2025-07-24T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20673\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:32:07","slug":"ketts-oak-sculpture-could-be-saved-despite-demolition-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/20673\/","title":{"rendered":"Kett’s Oak sculpture could be saved despite demolition plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a previous meeting in May<\/a>, the developers had no plans for the sculpture.<\/p>\n

It had been one of the main questions raised by the public about the development, said Peter Fisher, an architect working on the project.<\/p>\n

He said: “The Kett Oak sculpture was quite a prominent observation during the various bits of consultation, including the public exhibition.<\/p>\n

“Since then, we have had a demolition audit undertaken and we are now confident that it can be removed from the building, stored, and reinstated in some way.”<\/p>\n

Mr Fisher said the architects were working with an art consultant on “how to work with a sculpture of this nature”. <\/p>\n

He explained the primary proposal was to reinstate it in a similar position on the ground floor to the first floor of the new building.<\/p>\n

After the meeting in May, the proposed height of the building was also reduced by one storey, said the Local Democracy Reporting Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Councillors, including Martin Smith and Richard Robertson, said they wanted to see the sculpture reinstated, but raised concerns about the height of the building.<\/p>\n

Robertson suggested it was in “conflict” with the 2004 framework for the Station Road development.<\/p>\n

He said it had set out that the heights of buildings leading away from the station should get “gradually lower”.<\/p>\n

Mark Derbyshire, part of the development team, said the 2004 document referred to by Robertson had been “overtaken” by subsequent planning documents, such as the city council’s local plan.<\/p>\n

The developers will hold a second public consultation before a formal planning application for the project is submitted to the city council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a previous meeting in May, the developers had no plans for the sculpture. It had been one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20674,"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-20673","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\/20673","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=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}