The Champion reports today that the Council’s plans for "pods" at the end of Aughton Street, Ormskirk will not be put forward at tomorrows planning committee. The article states that "the proposal has now been moved to allow for the ‘actual scheme being proposed by the council’ to be properly considered". The implication being that those people who are against the proposal are reacting to something that isn’t the ‘actual scheme’.

Perhaps this means that they’re going back to the drawing board, and a more appropriate design will be forthcoming.

It is also possible that the Council has learned after the experience with the "Extreme Sports Village" which was planned to be built over much of Beacon Country Park. Back then, they stuck to their original idea and consequently they were defeated by the combined pressure of local residents and local opposition councillors. It ended with a very public humiliation and back-down from the Council.

Whatever it means, the Council would do well to release some more "artists impressions" of the artwork. We are told that they are meant to "frame" the historic clock. If that’s the case, then why haven’t they got any pictures of them doing just that?