PLANS to install advertisement signs above a vacant pizza restaurant have been approved.

Five illuminated signs are to be placed outside the former Pizza Hut unit at Barrow’s Hollywood Park as plans to convert the site into a veterinary practice move forward.

CVS Vets PLC applied to Westmorland and Furness Council for permission to refit the vacant Pizza Hut unit as a veterinary practice earlier this year.

The group currently owns and operates over 500 veterinary practices in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and the Netherlands, including the Church Walk Veterinary Centres in Barrow and Ulverston.

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Pictures submitted to the council show the Church Walk branding is proposed at the new site.

The 660 square-metre site had previously been the subject of an application from Canadian food and coffee giant Tim Horton’s to turn the site into its first outlet in Cumbria.

But six months after the first submitting the plans to Barrow Borough Council in June 2021, the proposal was withdrawn.

The Hollywood Park Pizza Hut branch closed its doors for the final time in September 2021.

Norfolk-based CVS has now come up with a new plan for the vacant site, and proposes to open from Monday to Friday, from 8.30am until 7pm, and would employ seven members of staff.

It would mean another veterinary addition to Barrow following the recent opening of Wild Side Vets on Abbey Road, which also offers an out-of-hours service.