Sports fans will benefit from a new temporary sports centre that will open to the community later this year.

The facility at Orleans Park School, Twickenham, is set to open in September and will offer to the public, after school hours, at weekends and during holidays, the use of a multi-purpose games centre and Astroturf pitch.

The redevelopment, which will take place over the school summer holiday, will benefit pupils and residents who will be unable to use their regular facilities at Twickenham Academy, in Whitton, while it undergoes an extensive rebuild.

It is hoped that the sports centre at Twickenham Academy will reopen in 2014.