A charity has won the right to keep posters on its building after planning officers told it to tear them down.

Brighton and Hove City Council's planning committee has overruled the recommendations of planning officers and decided to allow Community Base in Queen's Road, Brighton, to use its large north-facing wall for advertising.

The Argus reported in August how the council had ordered the charity to take down advertising on the same day council advertisements were put up across the road.

Community Base director Colin Chalmers was furious.

The charity, which houses more than 30 community and voluntary organisations, does not receive any council funding and has raised more than £30,000 in the last two years from advertising revenue.

The council said the adverts were visible from the North Laine conservation area and not in keeping. It informed Mr Chalmers his application for planning permission to advertise, lodged in June, would be recommended for refusal.

But a planning meeting at the beginning of the month found in favour of the charity.

Green councillors Simon Williams and Keith Taylor spoke in favour of Community Base at the meeting on September 1 and handed in a petition supporting the charity's planning application.

The committee gave the go-ahead for Community Base to have adverts on its wall for three months of every year for the next five years.

Mr Chalmers said: "I would like to thank our Green councillors and all the people who signed our petition and wrote letters of support."