Controversial plans for a burger restaurant next to a cemetery have been approved by one vote.

Members of Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee voted six to five in favour of a McDonald's and three light industrial or office units behind the BP filling station in Old Shoreham Road, Hove.

There was an 118-signature petition and 98 individual letters of objection to the scheme next to Hove Cemetery.

Most objectors were concerned about traffic implications but council traffic experts assured councillors there was no firm case for traffic lights at the junction with Holmes Avenue and the site entrance.

Tory ward councillor Peter Lewis said there would be increased traffic and the prospects of making a right turn at the junction were dire.

Tory councillor David Bennett said: "This will probably be the biggest drive-through restaurant in the whole of Brighton and Hove. I like McDonald's and I have to go with my family to the Holmbush Centre in Shoreham."

Labour councillor Les Hamilton and Tory councillor Carol Theobald were both worried about traffic problems.

But Labour councillor Gwenda Beishon and chairman Ron Pennington were both satisfied with conditions being imposed.

Coun Beishon said: "Very many roads have difficult right turns and that is not a reason to refuse it."