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Brentford FC start work on home ground improvements despite Premier League rumours

Brentford FC have begun improvement work on their Griffin Park home, despite suggestions that the ground is unsuitable should they be promoted to the Premier League.

According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times, The Bees, who currently fourth in the Championship, would currently fail to satisfy Premier League stadia standards should they achieve the rumoured promotion.

The club is required to submit plans to football chiefs by the end of January and the club are keen on remaining at Griffin Park.

Chief executive Mark Devlin tweeted: “We have applied 4 planning permission to cover the New Road concourse. If we get the green light would hope to do work in summer.”

The Bees have plans for a new 20,000-capacity stadium at Lionel Road, near Kew Bridge, which they hope will be ready in 2017.

Mr Devlin told the BBC earlier this month: “It is not inconceivable that we could put seats on the terracing.

“It would reduce the capacity so we are also looking at coming up with creative ways of adding additional seats.

“The media facilities are still a tad spartan - media is probably our biggest challenge, along with the changing facilities.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .