Mental health chiefs will pay Norfolk County Council £320,000 a year to move into County Hall, it has been revealed.
The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is on the brink of moving many of its office-based staff into two floors at the county council's headquarters in Norwich's Martineau Lane.
The mental health trust is currently based at Hellesdon Hospital, a site it shares with many of its clinical facilities.
But with some of that site due to be sold for development, some staff - including the board of directors - are to switch to County Hall.
The Conservative-controlled cabinet at the council is due, at a meeting on Monday (June 5), to agree to lease two floors to the trust.
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Councillors are asked to agree to a 10-year lease, with a rent of £320,000 a year and 64 car parking spaces.
The trust would be allowed to break the lease after two years, with a mutual break possible at five years.
The trust says the move would save around £3m per year in maintenance costs and allow closer working with fellow NHS bosses from the local integrated care system and social care services.
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