Cote, the BC Partners-backed group, has further added to its 2016 pipeline, by securing a site in Peterborough.

The Alex Scrimgeour-led group, which plans to open up to 15 sites this year, has secured the former Santander bank premises on Church Street in the town.

It will open its first site for 2016, and 72nd in total, at the start of February in Leamington Spa.

Further openings have been secured in Weybridge, Worcester, Woking, Harrogate and Lincoln.

Openings next year will also include the group’s second site in Scotland and its first in Edinburgh.

The company opened in Haywards Heath in December.