The keys to Chalvey's new Community Hub have been handed over by the construction company to Slough Borough Council ready for its opening in the New Year.

The hub is part of a major development on Chalvey High Street which also includes a new primary school.

It will be run by the council to bring community services to the heart of the Chalvey community - including appointment based face-to-face meetings.

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Meeting rooms will be available for use by ward councillors as well as training rooms, a kitchen and IT facilities for the community and voluntary sector. There is also work space for council employees.

There is a space for Chalvey Nursery School which opened earlier this month offering 60 places to people from the community, with its own secure entrance and play area.

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Cllr Sabia Akram, deputy leader and cabinet member for governance and customer services, said: “This will be a great community asset where we can deliver services on the doorstep for residents of Chalvey.

“Not only that, but the space is versatile and can be used by community groups, ward councillors and the children at the nursery will have a wonderful light, bright, brand new space to start their learning journey.”

Cllr James Swindlehurst, leader of the council and lead for regeneration and strategy, said: “The new Chalvey Hub, early years centre, and academy school are the latest steps in the Chalvey Regeneration Programme, which the council and its partners have been working to deliver for a number of years now.

“It is part of a series of projects that have included the Old Town Hall’s conversion into a primary school, new homes on the former petrol station site in Chalvey Road East and at the former Cross Keys Pub site, the redevelopment of the Ice Arena, new council homes at Turton Way and on the site of Tower and Ashbourne Houses - and which will shortly culminate in the complete redevelopment of the former Montem Leisure Centre site.

“It’s great to see these projects moving to a successful conclusion.”