A new drive thru Costa Coffee will be built on the car park of a Morrisons store creating more than a dozen jobs.

Walsall Council planners have given the thumbs up for the coffee house chain to open a branch at the store on Wallows Lane in Bescot.

The supermarket said it wanted to revitalise the car park and provide more of an offer for customers as well as economic benefits for the wider community such as creating 15 new jobs.

A survey showed the car park was under-utilised and the new Costa will result in the loss of 46 parking space, leaving 400 on the whole site.

Once built, the Costa shop will be a single-storey building, with indoor and outdoor seating areas. The drive-thru lane will wrap around the building for motorists to be served from a hatch at the back.