Grimshaw Architects’ plans to build a sister attraction to Cornwall’s Eden Project on the seafront at Morecambe have won consent from Lancaster City Council.

The practice’s Eden Project North proposals have been under development for several years and its first designs for the scheme were revealed in autumn 2018. But plans for the project – which will be a stone’s throw from the grade II*-listed Midland Hotel and the town’s grade II* Winter Gardens – were only lodged for approval in summer last year.

Grimshaw’s vision is earmarked for the site of a former leisure centre and will focus on four shell-like domes constructed from timber and covered in a flexible transparent membrane with integrated solar cells. The structures will be set in a “dunescape” of landscaped roofing planted with coastal vegetation.

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