A row over access to a swimming pool has ended after talks with a national store chain.

The Homebase DIY chain has agreed to let swimmers at Wadurs Pool use its car park at the Holmbush Centre, Shoreham.

Pool users, including disabled people and mothers with young children, had been banned from parking there while they went swimming.

Homebase put up a 1.5m fence to prevent them getting from the car park to the pool in neighbouring Kingston Broadway.

The firm said it had taken similar action at a number of its car parks after a fatal accident involving a pedestrian at one of its stores.

A petition with 1,627 signatures was handed to the council calling for the fence to be taken down.

Now a solution has been found after Adur councillors met Homebase bosses at Shoreham MP Tim Loughton's offices at Westminster.

Adur planning chairwoman Councillor Melanie Blunden and community services chairman Councillor Robert Dunn were among those at the meeting.

The two sides agreed a new entrance through the fence would be built, giving direct access to the pool's reception from the car park.