The opening date of a new Pizza Hut has been revealed.

The Sittingbourne delivery hut is set to open on Tuesday, October 25, on the corner of West Street and St Michael's Road, at the former site of interior design store Razzle N Dazzle.

New signage for the American restaurant chain has been spotted at the site, which will not have a dine-in option but will offer both delivery and collection.

This comes less than two years after the town's previous store was permanently closed.

Last January, the chain confirmed that its branch in the Sittingbourne retail park would not reopen after being forced to shut at the start of the pandemic.

Pizza Hut had previously announced in September 2020 that two of its Kent restaurants - the branches in The Mall in Maidstone and in Gravesend's Imperial Retail Park - would also close in the wake of Covid-19.

As the Sittingbourne site was not on the list of 29 UK stores facing permanent closure at the time, the news that it had closed its doors for good was unexpected.

A spokesman said at the time: “Unfortunately the Sittingbourne closure has been beyond our control and we are doing everything we can to redeploy our team members to other Pizza Hut restaurants in order to minimise the impact to our workforce.

“We understand this is a difficult time for everyone involved and are supporting our team members as much as we possibly can.”

The site in Mill Way was taken over by Swalemill Butchers, which announced last month that it was looking to expand into a new store on the same retail park, which it plans to share with a café or restaurant.

The former Pizza Hut site is proposed to revert back to its previous use for the sale of food and drink for consumption mostly on the premises.

Razzle N Dazzle was situated slightly further along West Street when it was the target of a suspected arson attack in December 2019, four weeks after expanding the business into the premises next door.