Grosvenor added: “Our priority now is to ensure the long-term future of the hotel given its importance to Chester.
“As an organisation steeped within the historical past of metropolis and that’s deeply dedicated to its long-term success, we’re creating plans for a serious refurbishment supported by important funding and the appointment of a brand new operator.
“The refurbishment will protect the future of Cheshire’s only five-star large hotel, strengthening Chester’s tourism and hospitality economy.”
Bespoke Hotels is known to have knowledgeable workers that RAAC concrete (strengthened autoclave aerated concrete) had been found. The substance, which has been extensively used because the Nineteen Fifties, in hospitals, colleges, blocks of flats and lots of different private and non-private buildings.
But final yr the federal government launched an inquiry over considerations the limited-lifespan substance posed important structural dangers to buildings that contained it.
Bespoke Hotels – which has been working the Grosvenor for over 10 years – is reported to have mentioned it meant to shut the resort by the top of September.
