Featured Consultations
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Our Budget 2025-26
We want your views on the council revenue and capital budget for the year ahead. Initial proposals for the council’s finances for the next financial year have been published. The revenue budget covers annual income and spending from day to day running of the council. The capital budgets include income and spending which provides service or economic benefits, often over a longer period. The council budget covers funding for services, fees and charges, Council Tax rates, and...
Closes 5 January 2025
Open Consultations
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ENGAGING WITH AND SHAPING SLOUGH'S CHILDREN'S SERVICES
Slough Borough Council's Children's services including Slough Children First would like to hear from you about how best we can work with local organisations, and community, faith and voluntary groups representing and supporting families and their children in Slough. The council is proposing a...
Closes 29 November 2024
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Council Tax Support Scheme 2025/26 Consultation
What is this consultation about? Council Tax Support (CTS) is a benefit that helps people to pay their Council Tax bill. By law, the council must review each year how much it spends on Council Tax Support. The council is considering changing the amount of CTS that some...
Closes 29 December 2024
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Our Budget 2025-26
We want your views on the council revenue and capital budget for the year ahead. Initial proposals for the council’s finances for the next financial year have been published. The revenue budget covers annual income and spending from day to day running of the council. The capital budgets...
Closes 5 January 2025
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Invitation to residents: Propose a topic for investigation by the Corporate Improvement Scrutiny Committee
Slough Borough Council’s ‘Overview and Scrutiny Committee’ agreed, in July 2024 its Forward Workplan of key scrutiny topics or each of its monthly meetings from September 2024 to April 2025 in July 2024. The Forward Workplan is not, however, set in stone and is constantly under review. The...
Closes 1 May 2025
Closed Consultations
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Carers survey for replacement care
This survey aims to gather information that will contribute to improving support and services for carers. Your insights and experiences are invaluable in helping us understand the challenges and opportunities faced by carers in Slough. Your responses will be kept confidential and will...
Closed 17 November 2024
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Mental Health Strategy Survey: Your Voice, Your Future
Slough Borough Council is developing its Mental Health Strategy for 2024-2029, and we need your input. This strategy aims to improve mental health services and outcomes across the community, guiding mental health support in Slough for the next five years. It will ensure services are accessible,...
Closed 24 October 2024
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Station Road Burnham Active Travel Scheme - Proposed Design Consultation
We consult residents, commuters, businesses, and stakeholders to understand what people think about proposed developments, changes to our roads and pavements, or other traffic-related issues. Following a successful bid to Active Travel England’s (Department for Transport) Active...
Closed 13 October 2024
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Simplified Planning Zone 2024-2034 Deposit Consultation
The Deposit Consultation is now closed. On 11th October the Council published its Intention to Adopt A ‘Deposit’ draft version of the SPZ was subject to consultation using the Councils Website and consultation portal between 8 th July and 19 th August 2024. Adverts were placed for at...
Closed 19 August 2024
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Have Your Say in Shaping the Future of Health and Wellbeing Services
Slough Borough Council is redesigning its integrated health and wellbeing service, and we need your input! We want to: Understand the Needs of Our Residents and what our residents want from their health and wellness service. Develop a service that meets...
Closed 28 June 2024
We Asked, You Said, We Did
See what we've consulted on.
We asked
The existing SPZ is due to expire in November 2024.
The council, working with SEGRO, published a Draft SPZ (Simplified Planning Zone) for Slough Trading Estate for consultation in July and August this year.
You said
The comments received have now been considered, and a list of these will be published on the 11th October. The Council welcomes the responses made, and considers no major modifications are needed.
The intention is to discuss the proposal at Cabinet on 21 October 2024. The Report will explain why it recommends that the new SPZ is adopted to replace the current one.
We did
The next stage is formal notification of the intention to adopt, which we are sharing below. This will also be published in the local press.
Town And Country Planning Act 1990
Notice of intention to adopt proposals for making of a Simplified Planning Zone at Slough Trading Estate
Friday 11 October 2024
Slough Borough Council propose to adopt these scheme proposals without material modifications. Copies of the scheme proposals, and proposals are available for public inspection free of charge on the council's website or in person as follows :
- Slough Borough Council offices: Mon- Fri 9.30am - 4.45pm, Observatory House, Windsor Road, Slough SL1 2EL
- SEGRO Office : reception Mon-Fri 9.00am - 5.00pm, 258 Bath Road Slough Trading Estate Slough SL1 4DX
- Slough Museum: Check for opening times: 72 Buckingham Avenue Slough SL1 4PN
Slough Borough Council will adopt the proposals after 12 November 2024 .
We asked
We asked for your views on the council’s draft equality objectives. We asked if respondents agreed with each of the proposed objectives, to rank each objective in order of priority, if anything was missing from the objectives, and for any further comments relating to the objectives.
You said
40 people responded to the consultation. 67.5% of respondents were residents, 72.5% regularly worked in Slough, and 50% worked for Slough Borough Council.
There was strong support for the three objectives focused on residents, with 80-90% strongly agreeing or agreeing with the objectives. There was less support for the two objectives focused on the council’s workforce, with 65-72.5% strongly agreeing or agreeing. The three resident-focused objectives were ranked as the most important, with the two focused on children and young people being ranked as the two most important. There was a variety of additional comments from respondents, particularly on community safety and risks to women being missing from the objectives, the correlation between housing and health inequality, and the potential to combine the two children and young people focused objectives into one objective.
An analysis of the consultation responses was presented to Cabinet on 15 April 2024 and can be read on the council’s website.
We did
Changes were made to the objectives following feedback from the public consultation, stakeholders, additional data, and the LGA Equality Framework. Key changes relating to the consultation responses included combining the two objectives focused on children and young people into one objective, the addition of a new objective focused on community safety (particularly in relation to women and girls), and the specific mention of housing in relation to health inequalities. The objectives focused on the council’s workforce were also rewritten to reflect the LGA Equality Framework. The updated objectives and more detail on the changes can be read in the cabinet report.
Cabinet approved the updated objectives on 15 April 2024. Further information and reports on equalities can be found on the equality and diversity page on the council’s website.