Purtill and the senior management of Paramount will run the hotels through management contracts. In a separate deal, Le Méridien has sold the 128-bedroom Le Méridien Chester hotel to North-west hotel, catering and events group Feathers for about £6m. The Chester hotel is one of Le Méridien’s former Principal hotels. The properties were all sold by agents ATIS REAL Weatheralls.

Le Méridien said it would keep the 118-bedroom Le Méridien Metropole in Leeds, its six central London properties, the Heathrow and Gatwick airport hotels and its remaining properties in south Croydon, Chester, Manchester, York, Edinburgh and Dublin.

Purtill and the senior management of Paramount will run the hotels through management contracts. In a separate deal, Le Méridien has sold the 128-bedroom Le Méridien Chester hotel to North-west hotel, catering and events group Feathers for about £6m. The Chester hotel is one of Le Méridien’s former Principal hotels. The properties were all sold by agents ATIS REAL Weatheralls.

Le Méridien said it would keep the 118-bedroom Le Méridien Metropole in Leeds, its six central London properties, the Heathrow and Gatwick airport hotels and its remaining properties in south Croydon, Chester, Manchester, York, Edinburgh and Dublin.