Couples wanting to get married in a posh restaurant will have to wait as planning bosses look into the parking situation.

La Quinta, in Benfleet Road, Hadleigh, has achieved popularity since it opened in a former clothing factory.

It is now keen to expand its facilities by getting permission to hold weddings.

Castle Point Council planning committee members deferred making a decision on proposals to turn the first floor into a civil ceremony suite and function room pending a probe.

Castle Point planning director Ian Burchill recommended approving the application as long as the restaurant's limousine service continued.

Following the decision to defer a ruling, objector Gilbert Tipper, who runs a neighbouring vintage number plates business, said he would be writing to councillors and council officers to give evidence of parking problems.

Published Wednesday, May 21, 2003

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