A controversial sculpture has been set in cement on the Kāpiti Coast and unveiled after people power won the day over the council's art committee.
The sculpture, Kiwiriders, depicts two free-spirited kids aboard a bronze coated stylised kiwi and won a sculpture design award in 2011.
It was offered on loan for free to the council earlier this year, TVNZ1's Seven Sharp reports.
But the council's art panel decided the award winning piece wasn't fit for public display, calling it muddled and ambiguous and problematic.
A campaign by ratepayers who liked the sculpture encouraged the mayor - who quite likes Kiwiriders anyway - to overturn the panel's decision.
One local man says the outcome is not so much as case of the power of the people as "the power of the need to remain politically in tact".
For Arrun Soma's full report on the controversy watch the video above.
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