So this is how you want your town centre to look

And fittingly, a competition held in Cumbernauld has also just announced the designs which have earned victory by being the most popular in a public vote.

As part of the 'CIAM Urbanism - Cities of Tomorrow' project, design students from the prestigious German Bauhaus College in Berlin came up with possible future plans for Cumbernauld Town Centre after visiting the town and getting feedback from residents.

Designs were displayed in a unit on Forth Walk in the town centre, and online, and there were more than 3000 votes in total.

Two designs were awarded joint first prize, each getting a cash prize of 1000. These were the 'CTC Walking: Avenue, Plaza & Woods', which proposed transforming the town's landscapes with features like tree-lined avenues and a central plaza, and 'cumbernow 2010!' which proposed Cumbernauld hosting an annual drive-in international film festival, inspired by feedback from residents of the town who feel it lacks its own cinema.

In third place, winning 500, was the patchwork-style 'Town Centre for Tomorrow' design which focussed on the addition of more outdoor leisure facilities in a grid-style layout, again inspired by feedback from people who felt this is something the town needs.

Steven Griffiths, director of CNC Property Fund Management Limited, said: "We have been delighted with the response and I think it's been an interesting exercise for us as owners to see what the students came up with."

He also praised the Bauhaus students for the standard of their submissions, adding: "Thanks to the students for their time and effort - we would be delighted to have them back in Cumbernauld."

He said that certain issues came up in many of the students' designs, for example how to tackle Central Way. He hinted that the competition could become annual and could perhaps focus on a more specific area of the town centre, for example units in Avon House that were originally earmarked as flats.