THE Inglewood streetscape design debate went off the rails last week.
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) summary of community discussion was used online to suggest council was changing the town’s name to Mallee. Loddon Shire acted fast to put real intelligence back into the conversation.
“Aside from being a demonstration of how wrong AI can be and how much caution you should use if relying on it, we would like to make it clear - we are not proposing anything of the sort,” a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, council says its streetscape project team has developed a project management plan that will ensure landscape and construction works associated will need to be carefully planned and phased over time, to ensure disruption to traffic and parking is minimised, access to retail and community services is maintained and general community inconvenience is limited.
“A focus for the project team will be to provide constant and comprehensive project updates, supported by the project’s community advisory group, communicating project works, road closures, temporary access arrangements and relevant information to minimise disruption and inconvenience,” it says in answer to questions received through the online consultation.”
Council says the project team has received feedback from residents and non-residents with a range of views regarding the incorporation of Malleefowl in the town-entrance signage design. 
“This feedback has been constructive and will be considered by the project and design teams,” according to council.
Streetscape designs were put on display in Inglewood late last week and council has said online consultation will continue. Almost 60 have now submitted feedback through council’s consultation portal.