NEW banners could at last be flying soon next to a busy main road in Herefordshire after a blunder saw the previous ones relegated to a car park, with a decision due next week.

New banners were ordered for installation on the A44 as part of Bromyard's rebrand, which cost tens of thousands of pounds.

But the banners were manufactured at 50 per cent of the planned size "due to a misunderstanding over specifications used on the previous scheme", minutes from a meeting of the town council's finance committee revealed.

It was decided that the banners be removed and repurposed in a car park in the town, with the job of replacement referred to the council's planning and economic development committee.

A working group was set up to oversee design submissions for the creation of six new banners.

Minutes from February's planning and economic development committee meeting said the committee had resolved to accept the working group's recommendation to appoint ID Creative Designs and to approve a 50 per cent down payment for the design works.

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ID Creative Designs would "work closely" with the working group on further designs for final submission to full council on February 26, the minutes said.

But the decision has been delayed, and the banner designs will now be considered "if available" by full council, which will also consider quotations to print and install the six banners, on March 19.

The designs of the undersized banners were controversial at the time they were chosen, with two councillors, Councillor Gill Churchill and Coun Liam Holman, saying they did not like any of the proposed designs, and Coun Clare Davies suggesting that the town's old banners were kept instead.

They were part of a £90,000 Government-backed project, which saw changes in the town such as new signage, and artwork installations.

Included in the project was the controversial Bromyard backwards D, which was dropped from the town's name after a backlash.