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The firm has applied for a store at 15-19 High Street, currently used by Charlie Browns.
It predicted 2,500 people a week would use the branch.
While the UK’s retail trade faces trading “as difficult as the preceding three years” Caffé Nero’s business is at a “consistent level” the application says.
It says: “Caffé Nero have proved to be resistant to such economic downturns and has become a long term asset to many towns, not only providing facilities for shoppers but also local jobs.”
The firm has applied to change the official permitted use of the ground floor to mixed A1/A3 use, which allows take in and take out food and drink.
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