The huge sculptures of animals – intended to evoke the natural and pastoral history of eastern Swindon – will be installed at the White Hart and Gable Cross roundabout.

Swindon Borough Council has given planning permission to its own plan to put up landmark sculptures on the junctions.

At the White Hart roundabout there will be three different figures of deer.

At Gablecross, an enormous rendering of a shire horse will be installed.

The White Hart display will be of a huge, bellowing red deer stag at the Swindon end of the junction – and a group of a much smaller hind with her fawn at the opposite end at the junction heading to Gablecross.

The figures will be constructed by Holly Hickmore and both roundabouts will also feature landscaping especially for the sculptures by Trudi Entwistle

Of the deer to be placed on the White Hart island, the council said: “The stag is almost twice actual size and stands on a promontory against the tree canopy. The Stag will 'address' the pedestrian walkway over the junction. And a gentle mother and fawn composition on the eastern, New Eastern villages entrance to the junction. This composition is just over life-size."

Of the shire horse to be put up on the Gablecross roundabout the council wrote: “The horse has been chosen to remind us of how we manufactured and manipulated landscape, and how the plough horse transported the crops we grew and goods we made before and alongside canals and rail.

“It has been designed to be at rest but turning its head to interact with the traffic and people moving around the site and waiting at the bus stop. Elements such as blinkers, harness and the trappings of the plough are suggested and intimated within the handling of the clay. This gives a dynamic, contemporary and exciting feel to the piece, while from a distance retaining the life-like and anatomically correct feel of the horse.”

The bellowing stag will be in an open area of woodland, while the hind and fawn will be in front of three oak trees to enhance the existing woodland on the roundabout, with the floor a carpet of spring bulbs.

Along with the horse on the Gablecross island, two large mounds will be constructed ”which resonate with the context of ancient earthworks, but also suggesting the ploughing ridge lines of a field.”