Parents have won their battle to prevent a bus stop being moved 20 yards down a road and placed outside a nursery.

Mothers, nursery staff and Scout leaders were furious at proposals to relocate the stop in Old London Road, Patcham, from outside the Co-op supermarket to outside the nearby Scout hut.

The hut is used by Patcham Pre-School group as well as the 44th Brighton Scout Group, as reported in The Argus on Monday.

On Tuesday Brighton and Hove City Council announced it would not move the stop.

It will continue with the rest of its programme of traffic improvements, which include new pedestrian crossings.

Liz Dunkerton, 41, who lives next door to the Scout hut, was considering taking legal action to prevent the move.

She said: "I'm really pleased they have listened to us. We're more than happy with the crossings and so on; it was just the simple fact of the bus stop being in front of the nursery."

Residents said the move would compromise children's safety and had not been properly thought out.

The council said drivers parked on the Co-op stop while they used the cash machine and the move would discourage this but residents said they didn't believe a 20-yard move would put people off.

The road is also narrower outside the nursery than by the Co-op, with several junctions leading into it.

The council said the stop was also moving so buses could reach a wheelchair-accessible kerb.

But Mrs Dunkerton said the kerb outside the nursery had only recently been raised and the kerb at the Co-op could easily have been raised instead.

One crossing point which has already been installed behind the proposed space is being taken down and moved back three metres because residents pointed out it would prevent buses from angling into the space properly Councillor Geoffrey Theobald said: "I am very pleased the council has considered what residents and we councillors have said.

"I would like to pay tribute to the officers for the way in which they have been out to inspect the site again and reviewed the situation."

A council spokeswoman said there would no longer be a crossing outside the Co-op but the rest of the scheme would go ahead and the kerb at the existing bus stop would be raised.

She said: "We have reached a solution that will still deliver most of the accessibility aims of this scheme.

"We will monitor how the revised scheme works to check whether the expected improvements are achieved"