A park cafe could have a modern extension built.

Plans to create extra restaurant and cafe space at the side of the 1925 pavilion tea rooms in Hove Park were submitted to Brighton and Hove City Council this week.

The new building, designed in a Twenties-style, would be linked to the old cafe via a glass partition wall.

An additional veranda with outdoor seating would be created, the kitchen in the original building would be enlarged, a tennis shop revamped and toilets and access ramps for the disabled built.

The cafe was built as a cricket pavilion in 1925 at a cost of £983. It was first rented out as a cafe two years later for £7/10s a year. Gino Fox, 45, who has rented the cafe from the city council for three years, said he expects the extension to cost £200,000 to £300,000.

He said: "We are a bit short of space and the building is not really set up as a cafe, particularly internally.

"We try to stay open in the winter because we are a community cafe but people often have to sit outside when it's raining.

"We are planning to put another building next to the cafe which would be in a Twenties style called de Stijl. We are also hoping to spruce up the original cafe."

Mr Fox said traditional food would continue to be served in the pavilion and pizza and pasta could be put on the menu if the extension was given the go-ahead.