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£1m lottery bid launched to restore Dudley Zoo
Sunday 13th March 2011, 6:00AM GMT.
A £1 million lottery bid to fund vital repairs to a dozen historic buildings within the grounds of Dudley Zoo has been launched.
Under the plans work would be carried out to the 12 Tecton buildings, which have been listed as worthy of international acclaim.
The repair work would pave the way for future development at the site, which would include creating a medieval farmyard.
Zoo board chairman Councillor David Sparks said work needed to be carried out on the foundations of the buildings. The zoo still hopes to attract further funding to help fully restore the structures.
The 12 Tecton buildings include the zoo’s iconic wave entrance, elephant house, sea lion pool and bear pit as well as the birdhouse, Moat Cafe, polar bear complex and two kiosks.
The structures, built by Russian-born architect Berthold Lubekin in the 1930s, were placed on the World Monuments Fund at-risk buildings list in 2009 alongside renowned sites like Machu Picchu in Peru.
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The lottery should finance this project. not some obscure dance group with no ties to this country its time we looked after our own.
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I’m pleased this facility is getting some support, but I do think it’ll take more than £1m and that the money should have been available a long time ago. We should have more than Lottery hand-outs when it comes to catering for out country’s heritage. Instead we see facilities being literally left to rot..the town of Dudley itself being but one of many, many examples. We don’t need mega-mosque projects thank you very much, we just need some common sense, in my opinion.
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