A new bid to build a mobile phone mast in an area of outstanding natural beauty is set to be rejected.

Phone giant Orange wanted to put up a 12-metre lattice tower on land at Applesham Farm, behind Lancing College, but its planning application was thrown out by Adur Council in January.

Orange has now submitted alternative plans for a monopole mast of the same height.

The company says it would not be as intrusive in the Adur Valley landscape as that planned before.

But Adur planners have received objections from residents in nearby Coombes Road and conservation organisations.

Sussex Downs Conservation Board said it acknowledged Orange's attempts to produce a more acceptable proposal.

But it said: "There is still a basic incompatibility between the installation and the character of the location.

"The visual impact would be unacceptable, incongruous and obtrusive."

The council's planning committee will hear on Monday that development in nationally important areas of outstanding natural beauty can only be allowed in compelling circumstances.

Councillors are being recommended to refuse the application as it would cause unacceptable harm to the landscape.