Four new classrooms at Arbour Vale School have been given the green light by planning permission officials.

This comes after the council agreed to an urgent decision to rush through the new classrooms of the SEND school on June 6.

New classrooms were desperately needed to accommodate pupils at Arbour Vale, which caters for roughly 340 students aged between three and 19, with varying needs and disabilities.

The council wanted to make sure that there will be enough school spaces for children with special educational needs. Arbour Vale was built for 240 pupils, but the council said in June there was a hundred over capacity.

The new space will accommodate an additional 38 pupils, aged 11.

Cllr Puja Bedi, responsible for schools, said that not delivering these spaces for pupils would mean children would have to be sent to schools outside of Slough – with some very far away.

Planning permission documents note that ‘there is an under provision and lack of quality for SEN pupils throughout the country’.

The new classrooms would be built in the outside area to the south of the principle building.

Given the minor scale of the proposed unit, it would be small in the context of the wider school. However it would be built on an open space used for sports.

Council leaders agreed to spend just over £4 million on building the classrooms as well as a new car park funded by a government grant.

It is set to open on September 1 ahead of the new school year.