Queens Park Rangers Football Club has launched a public consultation on proposals for a new 40,000-seat stadium and 24,000 homes at Old Oak Common in west London.
The Premier League club, together with partner Stadium Capital Developments, has unveiled a masterplan comprising the stadium, homes, and commercial space for a hotel, shops and offices.
The proposed 40,000-seat stadium in Old Oak will replace the club’s current Loftus Road ground in Shepherds Bush, W12.
Of the planned homes in the Sir Terry Farrell-designed scheme, a significant number would be for private rented sector use and affordable housing.
Plans would complement the Greater London Authority’s wider £6.2bn regeneration vision for the 195-acre semi-industrial site. Old Oak is to be the main hub station in the capital for the HS2 high-speed rail project.
QPR chairman Tony Fernandes said: “We are looking to deliver much more than just a stadium. We want to create a new destination that we propose to call ‘New Queens Park’. It will serve as a catalyst for regeneration, creating thousands of new jobs and homes for local people.”
Antony Spencer from Stadium Capital Development, which is also developing the masterplan, added: “We envisage a new, vibrant, mixed-use and high-quality development that will regenerate the area and turn this neglected but very well-connected area into a new world-class city quarter.”
As part of the consultation, 50,000 newsletters will be delivered to residents and businesses across west London. Public exhibitions will be held at the Loftus Road stadium between 15-20 September, and St Mark’s Church Hall, NW10, between 19-20 September.
Stadium Capital Developments and QPR have entered into exclusivity land arrangements with Network Rail and other landowners that control major parts of Old Oak to aid the regeneration plans.
Fernandes revealed that the club was looking at alternative sites to Loftus Road in November 2011. QPR confirmed it was in talks about the Old Oak site last August.
Anthony Green & Spencer is adviser on the project; Savills is advising on planning.
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