Felixstowe beach hut owners have vowed they will carry on fighting despite a petition being successful in getting East Suffolk councillors round the table once more.

Campaigners are pursuing a judicial review of the decision-making on the issue, specifically around notices of licences being terminated being put out before the planning committee's decision on relocating the huts.

Julie Downton, Beach Hut Association secretary, said: "The judicial review has been brought about because the licences were terminated on February 14 – before they had even gone to the planning meeting."

She said campaigners were "prepared to take it all the way," because "these huts mean so much to people," adding: "It would be a travesty to actually see where the first beach huts were in England there will no longer be any. I think that's very sad."

Hut owners have suggested a series of options, such as waiting for the beach to replenish, building new platforms or setting them back from the prom in 'niches'.

Councillors will debate issue again after petition.