An academy has issued a statement after the site where its new school will be built was subject to a suspected arson attack. Six fire engines were called to a fire at the former Nottingham College Clarendon campus, in Pelham Avenue, at 1.54am on Thursday, May 5.
It is currently not known if anyone was injured but the fire is said to have damaged the inside of what remains of the empty campus. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service later said a full investigation had been completed and deemed it a "suspicious" deliberate ignition, which had then been passed to Nottinghamshire Police.
Work started last year under plans to transform the site into a new 1,200 secondary school called Bluecoat Trent, with demolition underway at the site before the fire broke out. The Archway Learning Trust, who will be running the school when it is finished in 2023, have now spoken out on the fire.
