Aldi will come to Maldon after councillors agreed vital planning condition changes.

The store, alongside five other shops, including Next and a hotel, form the development at the former Brooks Brothers site at The Causeway.

Councillors were told the alterations, giving the supermarket a slightly smaller area and enlarging the size of another retail unit on the site, were not considered to “adversely impact on the town centre”.

Planning permission had previously been granted for the site, but with a larger supermarket unit for proposed tenants Waitrose.

Waitrose withdrew in September, leaving developers needing permission to alter the application.

Officers recommended the plan for approval.

Discount store Lidl was granted planning permission in September for a store off Station Road, Maldon.