GOULDS Garden Centre at Littlemoor is to double the size of its garden centre restaurant – creating extra jobs.

The existing conservatory showroom, alongside the restaurant, is being taken over to provide space for 168 covers.

Dorset Council has approved the application which will see the two buildings linked together with a kitchen, wash up and servery in the centre of the combined building.

Goulds say that it will mean an increase from eight full-time and seven part-time jobs to 10 full-time and 13 part time, once the development is complete.