{"id":629966,"date":"2026-06-09T21:47:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T21:47:12","slug":"wakefield-gorilla-caesar-to-move-to-london-after-planning-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/629966\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield gorilla Caesar to move to London after planning row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">When Teale lived in Leeds and worked for the city council, she had the gorilla mounted outside her home for more than 15 years and said there was &#8220;never any trouble&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She moved to Stanley in 2020 and returned Caesar to display in 2024 before being told she did not have planning permission for the ape to remain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On 10 July last year, an enforcement notice was issued by the authority to remove Caesar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teale then appealed to the government&#8217;s Planning Inspectorate, which ruled in Wakefield Council&#8217;s favour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teale said locals had used him &#8220;as a landmark&#8221; and she would be &#8220;gutted&#8221; to see him go, but instead would be enjoying her new campervan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I went as far as I could with it and I couldn&#8217;t go any further to be quite honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the end of the day it&#8217;s still a plastic gorilla, regardless.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Teale lived in Leeds and worked for the city council, she had the gorilla mounted outside her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-629966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629966","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=629966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}