Britain’s tourist attraction the Eden Project is in talks with authorities in Singapore on creating a far more ambitious version of its biomes in the Asian country.

Eden’s chief executive officer Tim Smit said it was discussing what he called a Sim Country-style construction, along the lines of the popular Sim City computer game of the 1990s, which would include homes for people to live in.

The tourist attraction, based in an abandoned china clay pit near St Austell, cost £80 million to build and was launched in 2001. Since then 13 million people have stepped through its doors and it has helped stimulate the local economy by £1.1 billion.

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