[steve]

The trouble is the temporary set looks more like the style of BBC News sets that are being replaced, so to retain it for permanent use might look a bit dated.

They did say that Salford was going to be last 'for a number of reasons' so leaving the temp set standing would probably make sense. Reading Steve's posts, it does sound like the tech issues have been fairly significant, he said they've been in the repurposed-edit-suite for far longer than planned.