A beloved gorilla statue is set to be moved to London after a council ordered it to be removed.
The gorilla, which proudly sat on top of a woman's porch in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, will now be relocated to a "large store" in swanky Mayfair in London.
Owner Adele Teale, 59, put the four-foot primate, nicknamed Caesar, above her front door in 2024 after moving in in 2020.
She had previously lived in Leeds, displaying the gorilla outside her home for more than 15 years without "any trouble".
But last September, Wakefield Council told Mrs Teale to remove Caesar as he "did not fit" with the local character of the area.
Just last month, she told GB News: "I hadn't then heard anything from the council in months, but now have been told that the gorilla needs to come down by June 9 or I could face a fine of £20,000 or even go to court about it because of planning permission.
"I don't understand why Caesar has to go through; he's on my property, and I get that he's not everyone's cup of tea, but I think he's cool, and the kids that go by love him."
Planning permission was needed because the sculpture's "size, degree of permanence, and physical attachment” to her property, she was told by the Planning Inspectorate over email.
The council also said Caesar "threatened the greenbelt" and had "made a negative effect on the area's landscape".
She then appealed to the Government's Planning Inspectorate, and started a petition which received more than one thousand signatures.
But the Government's Planning Inspectorate ruled in Wakefield Council's favour, confirming the gorilla had to be removed from the home.
Mother-of-one Mrs Teale said locals had used the gorilla as a "landmark" and she would be "gutted" to see him go.
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She had hoped to keep Caesar in his original spot - on a wooden plinth above a sign reading "The Gorilla House - What Goes Around Comes Around".
"What's going on in the world at the moment?" she asked.
"The council are fussed about a plastic gorilla on my property; the world has gone mad. I really can't believe all this fuss over a plastic gorilla that's absolutely harmless."
The council did advise that she could move the gorilla to her garden, but she said she had removed him.
"It's done. I've had to take it down, there's nothing else I can do," she told the BBC.
Last month, Joe Jenkinson, Wakefield Council's Service Director for Planning, Transportation and Strategic Highways, said: "We have to investigate all complaints. And we appreciate that not everyone will agree, but under planning rules this required planning permission.
"The Planning Inspectorate is completely independent of the Council, and having looked at it impartially, have dismissed the owner's appeal and upheld the enforcement notice.
"This means the gorilla statue will need to be removed from its current site within four weeks.
"No-one is asking her to get rid of Caesar. It just can't go there."
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