The boss of a supermarket is to put barriers across its car park to keep out car cruisers who use it as a meeting place.

Sainsbury's car park in Mill Lane, Brighouse, is a haunt for the cruisers on Sundays but manager Adrian Roebuck plans to put a stop to it.

He said: "We have started to experience minor damage to the car park and landscaping, such as broken tarmac from handbrake turns and damaged bollards, shrubbery and trees. Our store closes at 4pm on a Sunday. We put the skips across at 4.30pm regardless of whether there are cars still there. The car park reopens at 7am on Monday.

"We've had a lot of feedback from customers expressing dissatisfaction with the car cruisers and there is a perception that we are condoning this, which we are not.

"We thought it was right from a business perspective as well as a community one to do something about it."

Brighouse has become a weekly meeting place for thousands of car enthusiasts.

"The permanent barriers will be put up in the next few weeks and we are manning the car park in the short-term," he said.

"We can't act as individuals, we have to act as a group and a meeting has been organised in a couple of weeks' time between the local council, police, traders and the cruisers themselves."

Inspector Pete Brennand, of Brighouse police, said he did not have the resources to police every Sunday night gathering. "It needs a multi-agency approach to solve this," he said. "There are still lots of people turning up and incidents occur from time-to-time but we receive very few complaints - 90 per cent of it is noise and that's not a police problem."