JIMI HENDRIX Statue Saved After Planning Blunder

January 11, 2007

Jon Land of 24dash.com reports that a memorial to rock legend Jimi Hendrix has been saved after winning the approval of councillors on the Isle of Wight.

The bronze statue (photo) was erected at Dimbola Lodge Museum, Freshwater Bay, to coincide with last year's Isle of Wight Festival.

However, it faced the axe after it was discovered that the statue had fallen foul of the Isle of Wight Council because planning permission had not been sought before it was put up.

But now a retrospective application by the museum's owners and the charity Planning Aid has been approved by the local authority allowing it to remain.

The design of the statue was inspired by a photograph taken at the 1970 festival — Hendrix's last gig before he died a month later.

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