Premier League find new home in West End

The Premier League are moving to new headquarters in the West End. They have agreed a 15-year lease on offices about a mile from their current base in Connaught Place with an annual rent of £880,000.

The three-storey building, in Gloucester Place, is being redeveloped internally to provide the open-plan layout chief executive Richard Scudamore wants and should be ready for occupation in September.

The Premier League expect to move in later this year and will be accompanied by the Football League, who already share with them, and the Football Foundation, who are based with the Football Association at Soho Square.

A Premier League spokesman said: "We feel we can operate more effectively in an open-plan building."

The Foundation, who receive funding from the league and the FA, are joining them in Gloucester Place because they have outgrown the floor they occupy in Soho Square. But the switch will fuel speculation that the game's governing body will move to the new Wembley when it opens.

The FA were tied to a long, expensive lease on their offices by previous chief executive Adam Crozier, but are unlikely to replace the Foundation at Soho Square.