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The controversial Cambridge Don statue – said to represent the late Prince Philip in his role as chancellor of the University of Cambridge – must be removed within four months, a planning inspector has ruled. The £150,000 statue, which weighs three tonnes and stands 3.9-metre (13ft) tall, was put up outside Charter House in Cambridge’s Hills Road in March 2023 by property firm Unex. But no planning permission was in place. In March 2024, the city council issued an enforcement notice demanding its removal, claiming it was causing a “harmful material impact on the visual amenity of the wider tow…

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