A GIANT mirror and a 12-metre-high spike are among new statues being planned for East Lancashire.

The Panopticon Project will see public works of art in all six boroughs of the region by 2007.

So far designs have been chosen for Blackburn, Pendle and Rossendale.

Now three designs each have been submitted for Burnley, Hyndburn and the Ribble Valley, as part of the second stage of the project.

Each idea will go on show in the boroughs this week, for the public to see and comment on for the first time.

Subject to planning permission, Hyndburn's design will see artwork placed on The Coppice, Peel Park, Accrington.

Suggested ideas are a series of giant mounds, called 'Landroom' to be used as a new public space, a wooden tower and viewing platform, known as the 'Coppice Wind Tower' and a giant mirror to reflect the countryside and sky, which as yet has no name.

In Burnley, a statue could be built at Crown Point.

'King Cotton' is a steel viewpoint and windbreak engraved with the thoughts of local people.

The 'Singing Ringing Tree' is a structure made from recycled scaffolding pipes that makes sounds as the wind blows across it.

'Air Core' is a circle of clear, three-metre-high tubes.

Then in the Ribble Valley, the chosen design could be built on Kemple End.

'Fold' is a cast iron shelter with viewing windows, while 'Kemple Pike' is a 12-metre-high metal needle.

Finally 'neoSCOPE' is a long, sheltering wall, sunk into an existing dip in the ground, with a special viewing window to the surrounding landscape.

The displays will be on show until January 24 as part of a public consultation, which will let local residents have their say on the plans.

Designs for the first three panopticons for Blackburn, Pendle and Rossendale were announced in summer 2003.

Planning permission is now in place for 'Colourfields', to be built at The Cannon Battery, Corporation Park, Blackburn, and 'The Atom', destined for Wycoller Country Park, Pendle, and building is expected to begin in the first half of 2005.

The third panopticon, 'Halo', will be built, subject to planning permission, on Top o' Slate above Haslingden.