The voice of the people won out today as Cornwall county council announced it was to scrap the controversial new logo for One Cornwall.

The council confirmed that when the unitary authority takes control of the county in April, the current county council logo would be adopted.

Members of the One Cornwall Implementation Executive decided the current logo could be used with just a change in name from Cornwall county council to Cornwall council.

This logo, which features the traditional Cornish symbols of the chough and the shield and 15 bezants, replaces the design adopted by the Implementation Executive last June. At that time members of the Implementation Executive said they felt Cornwall council should have a new logo to emphasise the fact that Cornwall council was a brand new council for Cornwall. Since then, however, a large number of people have expressed concern at the lack of a traditional Cornish look to the design.

Such was the strength of opinion that a group was even set up on social networking website Facebook, with 3,103 people joining “Stop the new Cornish council logo.”

Just 296 joined the support group “Support the Cornwall county council logo.”

Announcing today’s decision, David Whalley, chairman of the Implementation Executive, said: “Councillors did not intend to ignore the county’s heritage and, in fact, made it very clear that the traditional Cornish crest with the miner, fisherman and chough will continue to be used by the council for ceremonial purposes.

“We appreciate, however, that some members of the public continue to be unhappy with the design. As a result we have decided to continue to use the logo which has been associated with Cornwall county council. This celebrates the county’s heritage at the same time as marking the change to the new Cornwall council”.

The introduction of the new Cornwall council logo will be phased in over a four year period to keep costs to a minimum, with the main customer sites used by the public, customer service staff and library vans identified as the top priorities for the first day.