The prospective deal is dependant on money being paid by the HCA to the trust after a specialist, technical assessment of the historic industrial buildings at Tower Works, the council said.

BBC: Holbeck's landmark towers in transfer deal

At Pakhuis, tucking in to oven-roasted Bresse chicken beneath industrial trusses felt like picnicking in the machine room of the Eiffel Tower.

CNN: Flanders: Europe's best-kept design secret

Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.

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