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The Borough of Slough is a unitary authority with borough status in the ceremonial county of Berkshire, Southern England. The borough is centred around the town of Slough and includes Langley . It forms an urban area with parts of Buckinghamshire and extends to the villages of Burnham , Farnham Royal , George Green , and Iver .
Slough's first local authority was a local board, established in 1863. [3] Such boards were reconstituted as urban district councils in 1894. The urban district boundaries were enlarged several times, notably in 1930 when it absorbed areas including Langley and Cippenham. [4] Slough Town Hall, Bath Road: Council's headquarters 1937–2011
The parishes of Slough and Stoke-in-Slough were both urban parishes and so were not given their own parish councils, but were directly administered by Slough Urban District Council, which replaced the Slough Local Board. The parish of Stoke-in-Slough was abolished in 1896, with the parish of Slough enlarged to cover the whole urban district. [3]
For local government purposes Berkshire comprises six unitary authority areas: Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, and Wokingham. The historic county included the parts of Oxfordshire south of the River Thames, which formed its northern border, but excluded Caversham and Slough.
There are numerous primary and secondary schools serving Slough. Of the latter there are four state grammar schools. In addition, East Berkshire College has a campus in the area. Slough schools are in the top 10 best performers in the country at GCSE level. In 2011, 68.1% of pupils left school with a minimum of 5 A*-C grades (with English and ...
Slough Borough Council is the local authority for Slough, a unitary authority in Berkshire, England. Council elections. Non-metropolitan district elections
An English local authority's councillors may be elected all at once, by halves or by thirds. [1] Because of this disparate system, various local elections take place every year, but changes in party representation arise frequently regardless due to resignations, deaths, by-elections, co-options and changes of affiliation.
There is a general push towards the reorganisation of English local government to the authority structure, often reorganisation is a condition of new devolution powers. [ 4 ] 46 unitary authorities were created from the 1996 reform , nine more were created in 2009 , followed by further changes in 2019 , 2020, 2021 and 2023.