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Agree with Brad and Andy here - if you can keep this content within the same site, expanding and perhaps restructuring what you already have, that would be better. Some large corporates (think HSBC, Aviva, etc.) have a corporate site and a customer-facing site - and even then, it can get them into difficulty when the "wrong" site outranks the right one for certain content, like the brand name. In the case of big corporates, it's usually bad for business when a corporate site outranks the customer site, and this happens with annoying regularity to some of them. If it's possible to have all the content on one site, that site's home page is going to be virtually guaranteed to rank for brand terms, rather than there be a battle between a .com and a .co.uk, for example, for some queries. If your current CMS does not have the capability of building a larger site on your domain, consider investing in a new CMS as long as it makes sense to host both types of content on the one domain / site.

Well thats the odd thing the links to the old page were returning 404 page not found error so that and the very low page authority led me to believe a 301 redirect was needed

Happens to me all the time in Chrome. Quick tip is if you think you are going to see this problem (and I usually know that I will after being idle for more than an hour or so) then instead of clicking the 'moz analytics' button top right click the little person icon to the left of it and choose 'logout'.  You can then login again as normal without having to go through the deleting cookies hassle. Works for me.

great thank you all

great thanks that works for now till they fix this bug