{"id":674822,"date":"2026-07-05T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674822\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T09:52:08","slug":"susie-the-cat-statue-given-go-ahead-for-dorchester-by-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674822\/","title":{"rendered":"Susie the Cat statue given go-ahead for Dorchester by planners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dorchester&#8217;s mayor, Les Fry, proposed approving the plans at a Dorset Council planning committee meeting on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Poundbury resident James Honeychuck, who submitted the application, suggested one side of the plinth was used for a poem, to be composed by the Bard of Dorchester.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Supporters of the scheme include Lorna Dannerberg who lives in Scotland and holidays in Weymouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told Dorset Council: &#8220;We come into Dorchester especially to see Susie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She has become a wonderful ambassador to the town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">California resident and online follower Jacqueline Londhair also wrote in support, telling the council: &#8220;Although I will probably never meet Susie in person, she brings such joy to me and others around the world every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Susie moved to Dorchester with owners Linda and Michael Crow when they came to stay with Graves, their daughter, in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After receiving multiple calls from people believing she was lost, they changed her name tag to say &#8216;Susie &#8211; not lost, just adventurous&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Facebook followers share sightings of the cat, which also features in a children&#8217;s book, postcards and a calendar, raising thousands for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dorchester&#8217;s mayor, Les Fry, proposed approving the plans at a Dorset Council planning committee meeting on Tuesday. Poundbury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674823,"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-674822","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\/674822","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=674822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}