A national coffee chain has been given the go ahead to take over a former Body Shop site.
Bakers + Baristas submitted a change of use application for 24 Westwood Cross in Margate Road, Broadstairs, in December.
Plans for how Bakers + Baristas would look in Westwood Cross. Picture: JS DESIGN
The proposals include creating an outdoor seating area and repainting the shopfront along with new signage.
Now, in a letter dated February 12, Thanet council granted planning permission.
The opening date is not yet known.
The company was founded in 1981 and has more than 63 stores across the UK and Ireland.
The bakery and coffee business offers cakes, pastries, sausage rolls, sandwiches and muffins.
It already has branches at The Mall in Maidstone, Hempstead Valley Shopping Centre in Gillingham, The Pentagon in Chatham, St George’s Centre in Gravesend and Canterbury High Street.
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The Body Shop stopped trading in Westwood Cross in 2024 after the company went into administration.