They've got the ITV News title sequence/music, but the set doesn't look very corporate. What was to stop them bringing in the standard regional news set?
A different layout of set would result in different lighting and/or camera angle requirements, plus ample time after the initial set build to "pilot" the set (i.e. rehearse the new camera & presenter positions/angles, tinker with the new lighting angles etc to iron out any problems, and also get past any teething problems with any new tech such as swanky new LCD screens etc).
They would surely have had to de-camp for longer than one poxy week to get all of that sorted, so I never expected anything other than a "repainted" version of the old set.
Also, the standardised regional sets incorporate no fewer than
seven
large Ultra-HD screens (five of which form the 3-sided "window"). It'd be a waste of money to buy those for perhaps only 18-24 months' usage at Havelock House, and then buy 7 new ones again when they move premises. Any "proper generic set" at their current home would perhaps have avoided this cost duplication by having 5 static boards/transparencies etc in place of where the five UHD screens should be (e.g. with a printed image of a CGI newsroom or something).
Yes they could have planned to decamp again during their very final weeks at Ormeau Road, strike the generic set and rebuild it at the new place. But that would mean having a set at their shiny new home that has already had a year or two's wear-and-tear (plus any wear-and-tear sustained during transportation), which would be a crap situation.