A pop-up tipi bar will open outside Newcastle Central Station this weekend.
Lazy Bear's tipi bar will sell food and speciality drinks between now and early January, over the Christmas season in Newcastle.
It will open on the same site as Hadrian's Tipi did in 2016 before moving to Stack, to the east of Newcastle Central Station, on Nelson Street, close to where the taxi rank is.
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Hadrian's Tipi recorded 180,000 visitors in an eight-week period after opening in 2016 outside Central Station, Lazy Bear's application states.
The tipis open for business on Saturday November 5. According to its approved planning application, the venue has permission to trade until January 9, 2023.
Lazy Bear posted on its Facebook page to say "Hello Newcastle, there's a new bear in Toon" and promised "cosy blankets", "fire pits" Pieminster pies, speciality gin, desserts and mulled wine.
The applicant - SSD Concerts - asked the council for permission to open from 10am to midnight.
The complex will have its own toilets, bars and fire pits.
Newcastle City Council approved the application despite an objection from Historic England that it would "detract from the character and quality of the station's architecture".
Northumbria Police voiced no objection, noting that Hadrian's Tipi opened on the same site in 2016.
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