Plans for a new restaurant have received overwhelming support and been given the go-ahead.

Robin Wylde has the green light to go from pop-up to permanent after it operated out of The Popup Kitchen in Broad Street since it opened last year.

Harriet Mansell, owner of Robin Wylde, has built up a reputation of foraged food and local ingredients and now has planning permission from Dorset Council for change of use for 63 Silver Street from a shop - formerly Whoopsadaisy ceramics - to a restaurant.

Harriet, who competed on BBC’s Great British Menu and has worked around the world in renowned restaurants and Michelin star kitchens, as well as cooking for the Qatari Royal Family in the Seychelles and the Murdoch family in the Caribbean, received 23 comments, all in support of the new restaurant.

Fellow west country chef, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall of River Cottage, said: “One of the joys of being here is to be part of a growing community of incredible producers, skilled artisans and exciting restaurateurs. Harriet Mansell is one of them. Her focus on food provenance with a reliance on local suppliers, seasonal ingredients and wild foraging to create brilliant new dishes is a reassuring and thrilling addition to the local food scene.

“Her restaurant, Robin Wylde, deserves a permanent home in Lyme Regis and a great venue for its homegrown proprietor to excel further. Just as importantly, it will encourage a buoyant resident and tourist economy and keep the sustainable food flag flying in west Dorset.”

Ian Mouland, who lives in the flat directly above the shop with his children, said: “Harriet and everyone advising her have been delightful to deal with and thoroughly professional. Harriet is clearly a very good chef - my children and I applaud the focus on locally sourced produce, and we look forward to Harriet being in place and we look forward to eating there.”

Many other comments state the restaurant would be a ‘huge benefit’ and ‘great asset’ to the town and Lyme Regis would be ‘lucky to have her restaurant here’.

Owners of local businesses, such as the Galley Café, The Dower House Hotel in Rousdon, a Silver Street bed and breakfast, Red Panda Asian eatery, Just Fish fishmonger in Seaton, The Popup Kitchen, a South West vineyard, a small craft business, Furleigh Estate, Chideock Champignons and the Volunteer Inn.