North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb has offered to help find a solution to a long running dispute over controversial plans for a Cromer crematorium.

Mr Lamb has intervened in a bid to bring the warring sides together.

The move has been made after Cromer Town Council rejected a potential agreement to end opposition to the development at a special meeting last month.

The proposed deal would have seen the campaigning AONB Action Group abandoning its court appeal against a decision to grant planning permission for the £3m project on Holt Road.

The changes agreed with Bristol-based developer Westerleigh included an embankment screening the crematorium and separate exit routes on to Davey Hill.

Action group co-ordinator William Macadam said: 'Mr Lamb has contacted us and the town council offering to mediate. We would welcome any constructive effort to try to come to a resolution.'

Mr Macadam said discussions were continuing this week with Westerleigh and it had been agreed to abandon the proposal for an additional exit from the crematorium.

Town mayor Tim Adams described the proposal as 'unworkable' as it passed through an area set aside for burials.

He said: 'The crematorium has planning permission to go forward. My door is always open to Mr Lamb, but we have no meetings scheduled with him.'

The crematorium was unanimously refused by North Norfolk District Council's development committee in 2014, but approved on appeal to the Planning Inspectorate. A High Court appeal by the AONB Action Group was dismissed in November, but campaigners are continuing to mount a legal challenge.