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Attenborough studio gets the ok
Outline planning permission has been awarded to Lord Attenborough's Dragon International Studios for a £300m film and television studios, media centre, academy and film theme park in Wales.
Phase one of the scheme, which has recently been given the go-ahead by Rhondda Cynon Taff County Borough Council, comprises the studio - bigger than Pinewood and Shepperton combined - the media centre and the film academy and is due to open in 2004.
The all-weather theme park, which will host more than a million visitors a year and offer simulator rides and family entertainments based on popular films, will open in 2006.
Lord Attenborough, chair of Dragon International Studios, said the scheme would create 'a wonderful work and leisure environment'.
The scheme is just one of a series of leisure developments for a 700-acre site on a former open mine close to the M4.
Developers, the Joseph Villard Partnership, have also received permission for the development of a hotel, conference centre and health spa on the site.
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