Your views on the East's landmark

About 30% of BBC News Online readers favoured Dunwich

The hunt for a landmark for the East of England has found a clear favourite with readers of BBC News Online.

The Dunwich scheme received backing from almost 30% of people who took the chance to comment on 12 projects vying to be the East's 'Angel of the North'.

The scheme, which would see six Anglo Saxon churches built in their original place off the Suffolk coast, is meant to highlight coastal erosion.

Final judging takes place on 30 March with winners announced the next day.

Up to three projects could be chosen to share the feasibility funding of £250,000 as part of the competition being run by East of England Development Agency (EEDA).

Landscape East would see a bridge of reeds built over the A14

If the panel of judges, which includes an artist, members of EEDA and other community leaders, follow the thinking of BBC News Online readers, the top three projects would be Dunwich (28%), Star of the East (14%) and Landscape East (13%).

Readers felt these were the most striking of the finalists and were capable of "representing the region".

Paul Stockdale, of Martlesham Heath in Suffolk, thought Dunwich should be the region's landmark.

"I think that this project would make people realise how much we have lost to the sea and also the importance that Dunwich held in the area before all was lost," he said.

Glenis Weeks, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, added: "Dunwich, made such an instant impact, it made the others pale into insignificance in comparison."

A renewable energy power station was seen as a "practical" idea

Landscape East - in which a bridge of reeds would be built over the A14 - caught the imagination of readers as a potential "gateway" to the region.

Star of the East - a renewable energy power station - was favoured as a "practical" project.

However, not everyone was impressed with the selection - 13% of readers believed the competition was a waste of time and the money better spent on schools and hospitals.

Following the feasibility period, the project promoters would have to embark on a fundraising mission - with the aid of the EEDA - to turn to design into reality.

It could mean up to three projects vying for funding to be the landmark for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk.

All of the comments received about the projects by the BBC have been passed to the EEDA.