Slough planning round-up: Former office building to be turned into 26 flats

Here are the latest planning decisions from Slough Borough Council. 

Approved: Slough Council approved proposals to extend a primary school in Langley, with the additional building to be dedicated to two-year-old nursery children. 

Holy Family Catholic Primary School, in Langley High Street, currently welcomes children between the ages of three to 11.

The school received Government funding in June last year to offer additional nursery places for children aged two. 

In September 2025, this provision was introduced, but the pupils currently share a building with the three-year-olds attending the primary school. 

The new approved 70sqm building for up to 15 two-year-olds will be constructed in the existing car park of the school.

It will include a classroom with a toilet and kitchen facilities. No extra staff is needed to cover the additional intake of pupils. 

The car park has 29 spaces for staff and visitors. Although some of these will be lost to make room for the new build, the spaces will be ‘reclaimed’ after a roundabout within the car park is removed. 

The nursery will be open from 9am to 3pm, like the main primary school, but extended childcare hours from 7.45am to 9am and from 3pm to 5.45pm are also offered. 

A playing field for sports activities and a designated ‘nature area’ known as The Dell will be retained on the school’s site. 

Enter P/00230/014 into Slough Borough Council’s planning portal to view the full plans.

Approved: A vacant office building in Slough will be turned into 26 flats after the council approved the plans. 

A prior approval application was submitted to the local authority to change Rath House, a former office building at 55-65 Uxbridge Road, into flats.

The part-two, part-three storey building has meeting rooms and an open-plan office space on the first floor. The second and third floors also have an open plan. 

Continuum Urban Planning Ltd submitted a planning statement as part of the proposals, looking to turn the office space into 25 one-bed apartments and one two-bed flat. 

Under permitted development rights (PDRs), no full planning application is needed when such a change is proposed. Instead, the applicant needs to meet a list of national requirements. 

An existing basement car parking area with 45 spaces will be retained, but only 27 of these will be available to residents. The rest of the bays will be turned into a covered storage area for cycle parking. 

Another 10 car parking spaces are also located outside the office building. 

Enter F/00968/020 into Slough Borough Council’s planning portal to view the full plans. 

Refused: Slough Council rejected proposals to increase the number of bedrooms in a HMO. 

The house in Carrington Road is a six-bedroom house of multiple occupation (HMO), but the landlord was looking to add another bedroom.

A planning statement submitted as part of the application by ArchiGrace Limited said the extra ensuite bedroom already exists but is being used as a communal space. 

No external works would have been carried out to the property, with the change leading to a ‘minimal intensification’ of residents.

It said: “The addition of a single occupant will not materially alter noise, coming and goings or local character.”

The communal kitchen and bathroom facilities would have been retained to meet Slough’s HMO licensing requirements. 

But the council’s planning officers said the plans are ‘unacceptable in principle’ because the change would create a ‘high-density’ home. 

Enter P/19494/003 to view into Slough Borough Council’s planning portal to view the full plans.