No Peace for Thomas Hardy - or his statue

If it wasn't enough that his burial was a botched job (his heart in St Michael's churchyard, Stinsford, his ashes in Westminster Abbey), I read in Dorchester Voice that his statue "currently situated near the Top o'Town roundabout" (watch unveiling), will be moved to a spot in front of the planned Brewery Square Hardy Theatre (The Maltings Arts, to be ready in about four years, subject to around six million pounds funding being found).

Wouldn't it be possible to make a second cast, or, even better, to commission an entirely new statue for the Brewery Square Theatre site? Why remove a significant historical landmark?

The Maltings Arts, Brewery Square (pdf).