An education and skills centre planned at the Welsh Mountain Zoo has been further delayed due to Covid.
Now the National Zoological Society of Wales has applied to Conwy County Council?s planning committee for an extension on the original planning application, which was granted in December 2017.
The skills centre has been on the cards for more than ten years and was subject to a judicial review after initial planning consent was granted in April 2015.
But pandemic restrictions have further slowed progress, and the zoo has applied for an extension to the five-year agreement and some of its conditions, which must be met before construction starts.
The planning application submitted in December 2017 includes plans for a new alligator beach and tropical area with seven reptile exhibits, butterfly exhibit and six species exhibits.
Now the National Zoological Society of Wales has applied to Conwy County Councils planning committee for an extension on the original planning application, which was granted in December 2017..
Now the National Zoological Society of Wales has applied to Conwy County Council's planning committee for an extension on the original planning application, which was granted in December 2017..
The plans also included a plant exhibit, two lecture rooms, two classrooms, WCs, service rooms, including ?off show? planting, reptile and insect rooms, two offices, keeper?s store, kitchen, mess and plant room.
As part of the plans, the existing alligator beach building would be retained and converted into a pump house and butterfly exhibit. The pavilion on the southern boundary wall and the gateway and pillars to the northern boundary would also be retained.
Whilst a new gated opening was proposed in the western boundary wall, the northern stone steps would be relocated to replace the altered southern steps and provide access to an external sensory garden.
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