Harrow Green’s specialist move teams are on course to complete the relocation of the North Warwickshire & Hinckley College London Road campus to its new site in Hinckley town centre.

The new £13m campus will be home to the College’s Creative Arts provision, with state-of-the-art recording studios, performance spaces, dance and photography studios, a theatre and computer suites.

Harrow Green has been partnering with the building contractor for the new build, ISG, to carry out an unusual industrial move of heavy equipment that includes potters wheels and kilns, a print drying machine, glass-making equipment, drawing and cutting tables, sewing machines, fabrics, theatre costumes, pianos and kettle drums.

“There is nothing usual about this move,” said Simon Compton, Harrow Green’s relocation consultant for the project. “Each item needs special consideration, planning and handling – and we need to be able to anticipate problems, for example where lifts meet grand pianos.”

The Harrow Green team is working closely with Andrew Crowter, Assistant Principal, Facilities Management, to complete the equipment relocation and the administrative move of crates, files and personal items, as well as the library sequential move of some 300 linear metres.

“The contracting of Harrow Green has proved to be a superb appointment,” said Andrew Crowter. ‘They are very professional in every way, not only spotting problems before they arise but offering solutions, with the result that the whole move has gone more smoothly than we could have hoped for.”

The new campus opened in September. The old site has been sold for housing development.