A PROMINENT, if temporary, feature has appeared on the St Austell skyline.

A tower crane has been erected at the St Austell campus of Cornwall College as part of the huge scheme to transform the site off Tregonissey Road.

The work to modernise the campus, which started last year and is being funded by the government, is being carried out in a number of phases to minimise disruption to teaching and training.

Most of the existing college buildings will eventually be knocked down and replaced.

The scheme came about after an assessment concluded that the John Keay House block at the college, with the exception of the John Keay Theatre, was at the end of its useful life and was inefficient.