A disused post office building will be converted to house a university extension.

The University of Brighton has been granted permission to overhaul the upper floors of the 38,319sq ft six-storey block in Cambridge Road, Hastings.

A complex of teaching and seminar rooms will allow an expansion of its University Centre Hastings outpost by 300 students to a total of 1,000.

The existing post office on the ground floor will be refurbished and remain.