Arbour Park: What the stadium and estate will look like

A new image has been released of Arbour Park which shows what the new site, which will be home to a football stadium and homes, will look like.

Slough Town FC will soon return to the borough after spending almost a decade in ground-sharing exile.

The Rebels lost their home at Wexham Park in 2003 and forced to groundshare first at Stag Meadow with Windsor & Eton FC and then at Holloways Park with Beaconsfield SYCOB who remain their hosts.

In the late 1930s the club had to share facilities with Maidenhead United FC after their then home, the  Dolphin Stadium, was sold to a greyhound racing consortium.

The club returned to Slough only to be moved out of the Dolphin again in 1973 to Wexham Park Stadium where they remained for 30 years.

Fans and the public will have an opportunity tomorrow and Saturday to view plans for the new stadium at an exhibition at the West Wing Arts Centre in Stoke Road, Slough. Residents are encourages to attend the exhibition tomorrow from 11am-8pm and on Saturday from 10am-4pm. 

The 2,000-capacity stadium will be called Arbour Park.

There will also be sports and community facilities, playing fields and 88 new homes at the site of the former Arbour Vale school.

Council chiefs, Paradigm Housing experts and Slough Town FC officials will be on hand to answer questions over the two days.

Steve Easterbrook, chairman of the club, said: “It is a massive time in the history of the club because we have been nomads for decades.”

It is hoped the project will be completed by the end of next year.