An Indian restaurant is planned for the site currently under construction on Peel Road.

This will accompany the KFC takeaway and restaurant and Starbucks cafe also being built on the former Eurocars site in Douglas.

Excel Construction Group says the unit will be Vellikas Kitchen, the sister establishment to the Ramsey Indian restaurant and is anticipated to be open ‘at the back end of this year’.

Works are ‘progressing as planned’ after resuming last July due to being impacted by the pandemic.

Ground works will shortly enter their final stages, including soft landscaping and the erection of signs.

A big KFC sign has now arrived in the island.

KFC and Starbucks will be ‘fully operational during the summer’ and the operators are now in the process of recruiting staff.

The buildings will be closed up and watertight to enable the fit-out works to start later next month.

Once open, KFC will operate with the opening hours of 10.30am to 11pm and Starbucks from 6am to 10pm, both for seven days a week.