AN AQUATIC tourist attraction is looking to carry out further works to strengthen its ageing Victorian structure.

The SeaLife Centre in Madeira Drive, Brighton, has applied for permission to carry out repair works to parts of the seafront attraction, including its Victorian Arcade.

The centre’s application for planning permission said the work was in response to structural surveys, carried out on a half-yearly basis since 2011.

Restoration and refurbishment will be carried out in the Victorian Arcade which has already been the subject of safety measures in 2012.

They were put in place to reduce the risk of concrete flaking from the roof but staff say the issue has “intensified” with cracks forming to the limestone banding of columns while steel bars are corroding.

The centre’s quarantine room will also be relocated into a service room behind an exhibition area and the existing quarantine area turned into a new briefing and changing room for a snorkel and dive experience.

The SeaLife Centre opened in 1872 and was designed by Eugenius Birch.

A decision on the application is expected to be made next month.