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Chester’s County Hall sold for £10m
5th November 2009
By Joanne Birtwistle - Publications Editor
Anna Sutton, dean of the faculty of education, and Professor Mike Thomas, dean of the faculty of hea
THE University of Chester has bought County Hall in Chester from the city council for around £10m.
The university will use County Hall as the base for its faculties of Health & Social Care and Education & Children’s Services. It will also house staff from support services such as marketing, recruitment and admissions.
Professor Tim Wheeler, the University of Chester’s vice-chancellor, said: “This is not only good news for the university, enabling us to achieve the modest growth wh......for the full story register now for free or login below...
That sounds interesting that selling County Hall 'will not result in any cost to the council tax payer' - did I miss something? How could flogging a building for £10m mean that this statement even needed to be made? I have fond memories of the day I arrived in Chester in 1974 to be interviewed by the legendary Cheshire CC PR man Bryan Parker at County Hall, and I stayed in the building for 4 years. Bryan was the man who sold London Bridge to the Americans, avoiding telling them that it was NOT Tower Bridge as they had believed. When Bryan moved to Bristol to weave his old-school PR magic I soon followed.
Brian Minards