Ealing Council has backed plans for a new £1m sports pavilion at Lord Halsbury Memorial playing fields in Northolt, which will replace a former facility destroyed by fire in April.

Facilities will include changing rooms, a community space, a social area and a meeting room, with the flexible design of the venue to enable it to host a range of different events.

Larkspur Rovers Football Club and Northolt Amateur Boxing Club are the two groups that are expected to be users of the pavilion, with work scheduled to begin on site in May 2012.

An insurance claim for the destroyed pavilion is expected to cover the majority of the cost of the project, with the remainder to come from the sale of land at Rowdell Road.