PLANS have been unveiled for a major art project designed to attract visitors to Pendle.

The Panopticons project is part of the Regional Park concept, devised by regeneration chiefs to attract millions of pounds to East Lancashire to encourage investment, more visitors and better use of the countryside.

The structures are being compared to the Angel of the North, in Gateshead, which attracts 150,000 visitors a year.

The Pendle Panopticon will be sited near the Haworth Road car park in Wycoller Park, Trawden, and has been designed to offer stunning views over East Lancashire.

The structure will be a four metre high oval-shaped building made out of steel and iron and covered in bronze. A mirrored sphere will hang inside the building with a second sphere at another location in Wycoller Park.

The plans will be debated at a meeting of Lancashire County Council's development control committee on Wednesday.

The winning design was chosen by organisers, Mid-Pennine Arts, which ran a competition for three of the sites which also included the Coppice in Accrington and Corporation Park in Blackburn.

The winners of the competition, run in conjunction with the Royal Institute of British Architects, were announced in July. Other locations which will get sculptures include Crown Point in Burnley, Kemple End, Ribble Valley, and Top o' the Slate, above Rawtenstall.