Heart of Slough

Timeline

• Slough Borough Council awarded planning permission for the scheme in July 2009.
• In December 2009, the Homes and Communities Agency signed an agreement to provide £11 million in funding for the scheme while Thames Valley University courses which were due to remain in the town were relocated to The Centre in Farnham Road, Slough.
• A total modernisation of the town's bus station began in March 2010. Half of the existing building was demolished, as was Compair House near the railway station. The new bus station opened in May 2011, five months behind schedule.
• Redevelopment of the railway station started in the early weeks of August 2011 and was scheduled to finish before the 2012 London Olympics. Meanwhile, the remainder of the old bus station was demolished.
• A new £1 billion learning centre called The Curve was expected to start construction in early 2012 but was delayed until February 2014. It was finished in 2015 and opened the following year. It was named ‘Best Public Service Building’ at the Local Authority Building Control excellence awards held in March 2017. It was built by Slough Urban Renewal, a partnership between the council and Morgan Sindall.
• The town's Brunel roundabout was replaced with a crossroads controlled by traffic lights.

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