A former Costa Coffee at The Oracle shopping centre in Reading will become a botox and laser clinic, after plans were approved last week.
The Oracle has found a new retailer to take over the vacant Unit 30 from Costa, which left the premises in January.
The new tenant will provide ‘cosmetic treatments such as laser treatments and botox injections’, according to Hammerson, owners of the shopping centre.
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The Oracle owners submitted the application to Reading Borough Council (RBC) for a certificate of lawfulness for the shop’s use, with no change of use application needed.
The application was approved by the council on Tuesday, January 26.
Another similar store, Destination Skin left the the Reading town centre shopping centre, with its closest sites now in Basingstoke and Windsor.
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The Costa Coffee will be replaced by a new branch recently approved on Broad Street at a former Nationwide, meaning Reading will still have more than a dozen Costas.
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