A new council exhibition will show off photos taken during the delayed and £76m over-budget restoration of Manchester Town Hall.
The exhibition, which will be displayed in the Central Library, opened last week and will be in situ until June 2025. The grade-I listed Town Hall is expected to reopen more than a year after that.
Work was first expected to finish this year, but fell behind due to the pandemic and staff ‘discovering’ a multitude of previously unknown problems. READ MORE: It 'can't be ruled out' that Seven Sisters tower blocks could be DEMOLISHED Deputy leader, Coun Garry Bridges, explained why the restoration will cost £430m: “All throughout we've been learning more, and quite often it's only when you're on-site that you discover some of those [problems].
That has built in additional costs as we've gone through that, largely to do with the sheer scale and also the complexity of the programme.” But the biggest cost is ‘financial claims from contractors’, council bosses add.
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