£98 million is only a lot of money , within this context, if you judge it as 1 years expenditure. Assuming that it is the sort of thing you have to do every 100 years, then it is not so great. However, it is almost certainly a huge over-estimate. Bottom line will be that Manchester will be obliged to do whatever it costs though. It would be unimaginable that they let the city's figurehead building go to rot. So you should direct your energies ensuring the money is properly spent. There's no real way to ask national government either. Otherwise every town hall in UK will be there with a begginf bowl

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