PLANS for a mural to commemorate the Chartist march through Newport have been backed for approval by city planners.
Newly-released artist’s impressions show that the monument will have the same design as the artwork which once stood in the city’s John Frost Square, itself named after the Chartist leader.
Like its predecessor it will illustrate the story of the 1839 Newport Rising, which culminated in 22 demonstrators being shot to death by troops outside the Westgate Hotel.
The new mural will be a quarter of the size of the original, which was controversially demolished in October 2013 to make way for the Friars Walk shopping centre.
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Rogerstone Community Council’s project will be dependent on Heritage Lottery Fund support and planning permission from Newport City Council, which could be granted on April 3.
If approved the mural would be set against four display panels on the site of the former public toilets in Cefn Road, Rogerstone, with a commemorative bench also proposed.
The site is around a mile away from the Welsh Oak pub in Rogerstone, where it is said the Chartists visited before marching down into Newport.
The mural would be built by Oliver Budd, son of the artist Kenneth Budd who created the first mural in the 1970s.
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A planning officer’s report says: “The proposed mural and associated landscaping, by virtue of size, design and location would relate sympathetically to its surroundings and enhance the surrounding area.”
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