INDEPENDENT department store Sandersons Boutique Store is set to open a branch in Stroud.

It will open in the Five Valleys Shopping Centre at Easter 2021.

The new store will stock womenswear brands including Holland Cooper, Dior, Chanel, Barbour, Max Mara, Levis and Tommy Hilfiger.

The menswear department will feature Barbour, Barbour International, Jacob Cohen, Gran Sasso, Tommy Hilfiger, Levis and Armani.

The first Sandersons' store opened at Fox Valley in north Sheffield in September 2016 and was last year named Best New Retailer at the Drapers Independents Awards 2019.

Sandersons was founded by Yorkshire businesswoman Deborah Holmes, who died in January 2019.

In 2019 Sandersons won the Best New Retailer Award at the Drapers Independent Awards, the store was praised for championing unique and unusual brands as well as the store’s attractive layout and its approach to customer service.