{"id":409286,"date":"2026-02-05T12:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409286\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T12:49:09","slug":"controversial-1-3m-ni-sculpture-project-given-planning-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/409286\/","title":{"rendered":"Controversial \u00a31.3m NI sculpture project given planning permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A CGI artist\u2019s image of one of the Bangor sculptures \u2013 The Dove\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/7eb71405-cb0a-4ae2-90c3-333389cc7795.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">A CGI artist\u2019s image of one of the Bangor sculptures \u2013 The Dove<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kenwood, Local Democracy Reporter<\/p>\n<p>Today at 11:22<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A controversial \u00a31.3 million sculpture project for Bangor has been given the green light by the local council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Two applications were unanimously approved by elected members at the February meeting of the Ards and North Down Borough Council Planning Committee, held this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CGI artist\u2019s image of one of the Bangor sculptures \u2013 The Dove Michael Kenwood, Local Democracy Reporter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[42037,6225,6485,6486,16669,27032,1120,10152,96,92245,9184,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-409286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-ards-and-north-down-borough-council","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-democratic-unionist-party","tag-department-for-communities","tag-design","tag-down-news","tag-entertainment","tag-queen-elizabeth","tag-queens-university","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409286","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=409286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}