February start for £70m Brentford FC stadium

Work is set to start in February on a new football stadium for Brentford FC in West London.The Bees are set to leave Griffin Park and move to land off nearby Lionel Road to the proposed 17,250-seat stadium.The new stadium projects forms part of a combined residential scheme being developed by Be Living in joint venture with the club.The decision to start work on the stadium comes after planners at the London Borough of Hounslow approved amendments submitted for Brentford Community Stadium and 487 homes in surrounding residential blocks.Contractor Buckingham Group Contracting is preferred bidder for the stadium element of the project with Mitchell Demolition on board for clearance work.Around seven new residential buildings rising to 15 floors will be located on a ten-acre site on Lionel Road South, close to Kew Bridge.The first phase of the residential element of the scheme has been redesigned to offer more apartments to rent and buy, designed to meet the housing needs of the local area.