A pub landlord is preparing for the latest round of his two-year battle to keep a converted railway carriage as a restaurant.

Fred Courcha won permission to put an antique Pullman carriage behind the Gardener Arms in Sompting.

But a different and bigger carriage was put there and Adur District Council planners ordered him to remove it.

Mr Courcha was told the standard 1962 British Rail carriage was taller.

He lost a planning appeal and was warned he faced legal action if he did not remove the £80,000 carriage.

He has now offered to remove its wheels and bogeys to bring it within 5cm of the height of the Pullman carriage.

Mr Courcha also offered to repaint it in Pullman livery, install two oval Pullman-style windows and to paint Pullman and the name Lynn on it.

Adur's planning committee is recommended to refuse the application.

A report says: "The proposal is not to create a replica of the 1930 dining car previously permitted. Instead, it is to paint the 1962 passenger carriage in the same livery as the Pullman car and to alter two windows. It would be a very poor imitation."