Public outrage has persuaded a council to scale down plans for concrete bus buildouts in a residential street.

There was an outcry when Brighton and Hove City Council revealed its intention to build the accessibility platforms at six bus stops in Beaconsfield Villas.

With residents condemning the scheme as over the top and a waste of public money, the council agreed to amend its proposals, thought to cost in the region of £50,000.

Maurice Gale, who led the neighbourhood protest, said the reduction in the length of the buildouts, together with the removal of some existing yellow lines, meant the road's overall parking provision would no longer be reduced.

Mr Gale has costed a similar bus access scheme in Bournemouth, where shorter buildouts are used as standard, and says Brighton is spending two-and-a-half times more than necessary to achieve the same effect.

Pam Hornsby, who lives opposite one of the Beaconsfield Villas bus stops, said: "Nobody has ever questioned the importance of improving bus services for disabled people.

"I think we have had some sort of victory but I am still staggered they were able to work up a scheme spending this amount of money without even the agreement of the local councillors. It's extremely worrying."

She said the council still intended to go ahead with elements of the scheme, including putting a bus shelter at a stop where few people ever got on and replacing an existing small shelter with a full-size one at another stop used by few passengers.

A council spokeswoman said: "We have reduced the length of the build-outs in four places and have turned round two of the shelters because residents were worried about people looking into their houses."

She said a smaller bus shelter would now be placed at one of the lesser-used stops and the material used to construct the buildouts would reflect the fact Beaconsfield Villas was in a conservation area.

The bottom two stops, which had not been included in the initial scheme, will now be included in next year's programme as requested by residents.