Brentford Community Stadium

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Brentford Community Stadium
The construction site in May 2020
The construction site in May 2020
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place United KingdomUnited Kingdom Brentford , London , United Kingdom
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '27 "  N , 0 ° 17' 19.3"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '27 "  N , 0 ° 17' 19.3"  W.
owner Brentford FC
operator Brentford FC
start of building 2017
opening Summer 2020
surface Hybrid lawn
costs approx £ 70m
architect AFL Architects
capacity 17,250 seats
playing area 105 × 68 m
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The Brentford Community Stadium is a rugby and football stadium in the London borough of Brentford , London Borough of Hounslow in the west of the English capital, United Kingdom . It has a capacity of 17,250 spectators for the season 2020/21 both the new home ground of the football club Brentford FC and the Rugby Union -Vereins London Irish to be. The stadium is a venue for the 2022 European Women's Football Championship .

history

As early as the 1970s, Brentford FC pushed for the first time to build a new stadium in order to be able to leave Griffin Park , which was built in 1904 . However, the plans only became more concrete decades later, when the club published specific plans for a new venue near Kew Bridge for the first time in October 2002 . This also included a monorail to the stadium, which was soon deleted from the plans. The motivation was to keep the club competitive and interesting for investors with a new stadium. After the project had been in the planning stage for years, the Bees announced in December 2007 that a purchase option had been negotiated for a suitable 7.6 acre (31,000 m²) building plot on Lionel Road . In February 2008 the property was acquired with partner Barratt Homes Limited.

On June 28, 2012, Brentford FC bought the land from Barratt Homes. A community stadium with a seating capacity of 20,000 was to be built in the next few years , which could have been increased to 25,000 through further construction work. At the turn of the year 2013/14, the club received permission from both the Hounslow London Borough Council and Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London at the time, to carry out the construction work. Summer 2016 was named as the time of the opening, but due to various delays it was clear after a short time that this could not be met. Additional building land for the construction of 900 apartments was acquired in the next few months and in December 2014 a partnership was entered into with Willmott Dixon, which will implement the construction of the stadium and the construction of the apartments on the area around Lionel Road and on the then demolished Griffin Park should. The club received approval for construction in September 2016. By this time, the capacity had already been reduced to 17,250 seats and the entire position of the stadium had also been shifted three meters south of the original location in order to build a road on the north side to enable.

On August 15, 2016, the rugby union club London Irish announced that negotiations would be held to move to the new Brentford Community Stadium. The Irish, who were playing at the Madejski Stadium in Reading , Berkshire at the time, were hoping to return to the capital. In February 2017, the Irish were granted entry into the stadium. The stadium will therefore be home to Brenford FC and the London Irish from the 2020/21 season.

Work on building the community stadium began on March 24, 2017 and should be completed in spring. The cost is around £ 70 million . In December 2018, the stadium was named as the venue for the 2022 European Women's Championship . However, the completion date was delayed at an undisclosed time due to the COVID-19 pandemic . On August 30, 2020, Brentford FC announced that construction was complete and the stadium was open for use.

Transport links

The stadium is adjacent to the Kew Bridge railway station and the nearest station of the London Underground is the Gunnersbury station . The site of the new sports facility on Lionel Road is between the A4 road and the M4 motorway .

gallery

  • September 2018

  • February 2019

  • May 2019

  • November 2019

Web links

Commons : Brentford Community Stadium  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brentford given new stadium boost In: BBC, December 7, 2007 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  2. ↑ Brentford Football Club and Barratt Homes team up to acquire land for new Community Stadium In: Internet Archive, February 22, 2008 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  3. ↑ Brentford Football Club given Lionel Road stadium go-ahead In: BBC, December 6, 2013 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  4. ↑ Compulsory purchase plans approved to secure Brentford stadium site In: MyLondon, July 16, 2014 (accessed July 16, 2020)
  5. ↑ Public inquiry over Brentford FC stadium set for September In: MyLondon on May 6, 2015 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  6. ↑ New stadium progress as agreement signed In: Brentford FC on December 23, 2014 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  7. ↑ A new era In: Brentford Community Stadium from September 1, 2016 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  8. ↑ Brentford Community Stadium In: StadiumDB.com (accessed July 16, 2020)
  9. ↑ London Irish could soon leave Madejski Stadium In: BerkshireLive, August 16, 2016 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  10. ↑ Approval for rugby In: Brentford Community Stadium, February 10, 2017 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  11. ↑ Back in Town - The Irish are returning to London In: London Irish of December 18, 2018 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  12. ↑ London Irish to move to Brentford Community Stadium in 2020 In: BBC, December 18, 2018 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  13. ↑ Work underway In: Brentford Community Stadium, March 24, 2017 (accessed July 19, 2020)
  14. ↑ Last work on Brentford Community Stadium commences In: Stadium World as of publication date (accessed July 16, 2020)
  15. ↑ England to stage the UEFA Women's Euro 2021 Finals In: The FA, December 3, 2018 (accessed July 16, 2020)
  16. ↑ Coronavirus: Brentford new stadium completion on hold during lockdown In: BBC from April 3, 2020 (accessed July 16, 2020)
  17. ↑ Brentford FC move in to new home In: Brentford FC from August 30, 2020 (accessed August 30, 2020)