{"id":394893,"date":"2026-01-28T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394893\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:27:07","slug":"kung-fu-panda-to-be-removed-in-moorthorpe-miners-institute-revamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/394893\/","title":{"rendered":"Kung Fu Panda to be removed in Moorthorpe miners&#8217; institute revamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It added that the building &#8220;clearly served an important role in the day-to-day lives of people from surrounding settlements where collieries provided employment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But following the closure of the local collieries, its importance as a community focal point has diminished and its importance to the community has been lost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement said the new plans would &#8220;help protect the building&#8217;s future by providing a use that is sustainable into the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Planned work includes repairing the structure and making it waterproof.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement said flags and a &#8220;large panda&#8221; would also be removed and the property would be repainted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council&#8217;s conservation officer said: &#8220;We would be pleased to see a sensitive scheme of refurbishment for this fine building, which has social, historic, and aesthetic interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The officer said the removal of the current signs and flags on the building was also supported, adding: &#8220;These are overly dominant and detract from the architectural quality of the building.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It added that the building &#8220;clearly served an important role in the day-to-day lives of people from surrounding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-394893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394893","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=394893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}