The council’s new leader, Labour councillor Alan Baldock, said a cross-party working group would be set up to review aspects of the local plan which had attracted the most public response when put out to consultation, including the circulation plan.

“It was never going to be popular," he said, "and any plan that’s so radical should have really been sounded against the people that are going to be affected by it most, rather than just literally plonked on people’s doorsteps.

Yup…