A FORMER tattoo studio will now be used to pamper Scarborough’s pooches after being granted permission to become a dog grooming parlour.

Tattoo 52, at 52 Manham Hill, has sat empty for some time but Scarborough Council, the owner of the building, was approached about using it as a dog salon.

In the change of use application, applied for by the council as the landlord, the prospective unnamed tenant stated: “There will be a maximum of three small dogs per client (lhasa/shih tzu/ chihuahua size). “Working this way is less stressful for the dog due to not having a strange dog in the salon with it. There will be a maximum of five dogs per day.”

The salon will be open from 9am to 5pm on Monday to Fridays, and until 11am on a Saturday.

As the council is the landlord of the building the authority’s planning committee was required to green-light the change of use, which it did unanimously.