Somehow I don't think you'd get away with passing off animals on a planning application as "theming". I'm guessing it's going to be some kind of "watering hole" type affair with associated planing and maybe some signs or something. It's benefit the animals they currently have, and will help increase the options of animals they could get in the future. However, remember there's only a limited number of stables, and aren't they all full already? I wouldn't go getting too excited.
But anyway, yeah, so I decided to check the planning app website on realising that it must've been about now we were previously promised an announcement. That's when I found the water feature application. However, it then had the result of me trawling through past applications that they've made over they years. It was quite interesting. Because I haven't followed this kind of thing for very long, there was a lot of stuff I didn't know about. Like the whole Beach area, and the withdrawn application for a kids' coaster in Beanoland.
I need to get out more.