Plans to expand a McDonald's restaurant and drive-through near the A27 have been approved.

The fast food branch, which is next to a busy stretch of the A27 in Lyminster Road, near Arundel, is part of the Crossbush Services area.

The plans, which were submitted to Arun District Council, will see the drive-through extended with an additional booth added.

At the moment, it only has two booths where customers can pay and then collect their orders in vehicles.

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A spokesman for McDonald's said the additional third booth, which would be positioned after these two existing serving windows, would be used for "fast-forward ordering".

No further information on what this would involve or how this would work was set out in the planning documents.

The restaurant will also be extended to the rear and the front.

This will involve relocating the customer entrance to the side of the building and adding new doors.

The existing entrance will be used as a courier collection point with a pedestrian crossing in place just outside the restaurant.

This means there will be more space for customers to dine inside the restaurant as the internal floor space would increase from 212.5 square metres to 294.6 square metres.

The plans also made way for a new electric kiosk and an increase in the number of parking spaces for customers by adding eight extra bays.

The number of spaces where people can charge their electric cars will remain the same, however these will be relocated within the car park.

The disabled parking bays will remain unchanged.

McDonald's said that access to the restaurant from neighbouring roads will also remain the same and that no new roads will be created as a result of the work.

The restaurant will have to close for a period of time while work is under way however the dates for this have not yet been confirmed.

One person who opposed the plans during the planning process said the extension could see the litter in the area "exacerbated" and could create more traffic problems on the neighbouring A-road.

The plans were approved on May 30.