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Sleeping with Lions: London Zoo unveils ‘safari camp’ plans

London Zoo has revealed plans to build a safari camp on its grounds where visitors can spend the night in a luxurious wooden hut just metres away from the lion enclosure.

The plans show a cluster of nine cabins, which will each have private wooden veranda and access to a communal garden, according to the Standard.

The customers will enter the zoo at closing time, and will then be given a private tour followed by dinner.

Architect, Ray Hole said: “Externally the units are intended to be evocative of holiday lodges found in Gujarat region of India,”

“This would be achieved using simple effects – such as application of distressed painting to exterior timber cladding using warm pastel colour palette and brushwood decorative cover over roof felt.”

“Project Aslan”, has been submitted for consideration to Westminster Council and a decision is expected later this summer.

A report compiled by the Zooloogical Society of London, which runs the zoo, read: “The lodge area will be secured overnight so guests cannot walk around the Land of Lions exhibit, or elsewhere in the zoo.

There will be at least two security cameras within the accommodation area plus a security guard monitoring the area overnight.“

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