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Change of use planning in Slough: takeaway use approved alongside Class E

Sevda Kucuk · 4 August 2026

AVA Home Design has secured change of use planning approval in Slough, allowing takeaway use alongside Class E commercial use. Here is how we approach change of use applications for shops, restaurants and commercial premises.

Proposed floor plan from the approved Slough change of use application
Proposed floor plan from the approved Slough change of use application

AVA Home Design has secured change of use planning approval in Slough, allowing takeaway use alongside Class E commercial use.

Changing the use of a shop, restaurant, takeaway or office in Slough means an application to Slough Borough Council. We do the whole thing: the initial advice on whether the change needs permission at all, the feasibility work, the drawings, the planning statement and the submission itself.

The common cases are a shop becoming a restaurant, a restaurant adding takeaway use, a move between commercial classes, or permission for a new business activity on premises that were used for something else.

If you are looking at a commercial change of use in Slough, get in touch and tell us about the property.