A SUPERMARKET chain has submitted plans to put up banners advertising a click and collect service - in a town where they don't have a store.

Tesco has put in a planning application to erect five banners and three freestanding signs to promote the service around the car park at Chesham railway station.

But members of the town council said they were mystified why the company had applied to put them up in Chesham when there is no Tesco store there.

Deputy Mayor Peter Hudson said he had been "swamped" with complaints from residents and added the "unnecessary signage" would be "very visually intrusive".

Cllr Colette Littley said: "We've got a Waitrose and a Sainsbury's in Chesham - it won't do anything to promote them.

"It's a massive proliferation of signage we don't need. There's many objections on the council's planning website already from various organisations, which we should take into consideration."

Bucks County Council has raised no objections to the proposals but said the signage should be finished in non reflective materials to avoid distracting motorists.

The Chesham Society and the Chiltern Society are among the bodies to have formally objected to the proposals.

Chesham Town Council recommended the plans should be refused when members met on Monday night.

Chiltern District Council will have the final say on the proposals, with the authority likely to make a decision by the end of the month.