The Hadley Learning Community is a £70 million PFI project built by Interserve which opened in September 2006. The Facilities Management is also undertaken by Interserve Education. It has been built on a 39 acre site in Hadley and is an impressive construction which essential accommodates three schools within a single, modern highly technological building. HLC opens at 7am and closes at 10.00pm during the week and is also open at weekends and during school holidays for community use.

There was extensive public consultation and development of the concept of a brand new state-of-the-art building to provide a centre of learning for this area of North Telford.

Financial close, with Interserve, was achieved on the 15th March 2005 and construction commenced immediately. Early ground works had already been undertaken during late 2004.

There was a phased opening of HLC. The secondary phase opened in September 2006 to students, some of the sports & community facilities opened in November and the remainder of the campus went operational on the 8th January 2006. HLC is now fully open and there is still some work on site to landscape the playing fields for the primary phase. All construction work will be completed by Easter 2007.

Handover of HLC was completed on time and on budget.

HLC is the culmination of a 5 year project by the Borough of Telford and Wrekin to create a brand new school for this area of Telford. Their vision was to create an all-through 0-16 full service extended school as well as re-locating The Bridge Special School into a brand new facility designed for students with severe and profound learning and physical disabilities. In addition, there is provision for extensive community use with a public library, theatre, dance studio, 25m indoor heated pool, sports hall, fitness suite and ICT suites for life long learning. There is a full programme of community activities being developed.