High Street Slough
- Client: WMC Ltd
- Architect: Stephen Davy Peter Smith Architects
- Contacts: Claire Clark, Chris Brown
- LPA: Slough
The project involves the demolition and redevelopment of the existing site for a mixed use development. It will consist of retail at ground floor, office at first floor of Block A and residential dwellings above. The residential units are arranged across three blocks.
The new scheme will replace the flexible retail space (Class A1, A2, A3 uses) and commercial (Class E) at ground floor level, flexible commercial floorspace at first floor fronting the High Street for either B1(offices) or Class D2 (gym) uses and 89 residential dwellings with a mix of tenures within 3 buildings at podium level across the site with heights of 5, 11 and 4 storeys.
Shared amenity space will be provided at first floor podium level, with cycle, waste and recycling storage facilities at ground floor level, and provision of two accessible car parking spaces (for the residential uses), loading and drop-off facilities and servicing area within ground floor level with access from Herschel Street.
The lower floors have been designed to line through with the surrounding buildings, so that the proposed building looks like a modern continuation of the High Street. The commercial units have large windows to maximize the light and provide a generous street frontage for the retail units.
