A traffic-calming scheme which has been described as "second rate" will go ahead amid concerns its funding could be lost.

The £140,000 plan for the narrow streets in the West Hill area in Brighton includes speed humps, which Green councillors on Brighton and Hove City Council say are outdated and should be replaced with chicanes and build-outs.

But members of the environment committee approved the scheme after hearing funding could be lost if it was delayed any longer.

It has already taken seven years to get this far with the first consultation being held as long ago as 1996.

The plan includes humps in several roads, an overall 20mph limit, a mini roundabout at the junction of Buckingham Road and Upper Gloucester Road, a raised speed table where Buckingham Road meets Guildford Road and a build-out junction in Compton Avenue at Buckingham Place.

There will be build-outs at St Paul's School and accessible bus stops will be created in Upper Gloucester Road.

Green councillor Georgia Wrighton told the committee speed humps were an outmoded form of traffic calming, while Tory councillor David Smith said they could be dangerous.

But transport councillor Simon Battle said some residents did not like chicanes because they took away more parking spaces.

He said: "People have waited long enough and we should now take the opportunity."

Green councillor Simon Williams said. "A city centre district is facing a second-rate scheme which is much noisier and more polluting than modern alternatives."

Paul Bowes, from the West Hill Community Association, said only eight people had attended a consultation meeting and they did not welcome measures such as humps.