Outdoor enthusiasts may not have been pleased by the closure of Cheltenham High Street's Trespass store, but a new business is lining up to take its place.

Planners have given the go-ahead to a new café - the latest in a chain using the Triple Two Coffee brand.

Founded by a Gloucestershire partnership of entrepreneurs Sezan Walker and David Hodgetts, the coffee house would be the brand's second in the county - the other being at South Cerney near Cirencester.

Its owners have lofty ambitions to see the chain grow to 100-strong franchise businesses in the next four years.

Jinod Bungaroo, of Bunga Consulting Ltd, based in Peacehaven, East Sussex, had this to say in a letter to planners on behalf of Triple Two Coffee: "Triple Two Coffee mission statement is to deliver excellence and to serve premium quality speciality coffee, matched with an innovative food choices - a place where people could get a great speciality quality cup of coffee alongside awesome fresh food and relaxed environment for the same price as the leading high street chains.

"The business model itself will be based on the like of high street names like Costa, Pret a Manger and Starbucks.

"As such, kitchen activities will be at a bare minimum as food will be prepared daily from the franchisor central kitchen and delivered to the shop - some food will need to be heated up as opposed to cooked.

"There are no requirements to have extractors and flues outside of the building."

Suppliers include Gloucestershire-based Hobbs House bakery.

Punchline understands a lease is yet to be signed on the building.

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