Maidenhead & Windsor

Maidenhead Royal Borough residents will benefit from better facilities in the register office, thanks to an expansion and improvement scheme which gets under way on Monday (October 9).

The three-month refurbishment also includes re-landscaping of the Park Street garden at the Town Hall to provide a suitable backdrop for wedding and other ceremony photos as well as further enhancing Maidenhead town centre.

All register office services will continue as usual in Maidenhead Town Hall while the work is taking place. The office has been moved temporarily to an adjacent ground floor meeting room while the council chamber – refurbished last year to modern, accessible standards – will be used for weddings, civil partnerships, baby namings and other ceremonies when needed. Members of the public visiting the register office should use the main Town Hall entrance at St Ives Road.

Cllr Vicky Howes, lead member for Maidenhead property, said she was delighted that the register office was being given a much-needed face-lift.

She said: "This is the latest of our plans to make our buildings more attractive, accessible and user-friendly for borough residents. The register office is a key facility in Maidenhead town centre and this scheme will make it light, spacious and welcoming for people who are using the service at significant times in their lives – so they, their families and guests deserve to have a much more comfortable surroundings."

Also almost completed is the second stage of the Desborough Suite refurbishment, this time concentrating on backstage improvements and an electrical upgrade which users of the performance hall identified as being needed to enhance their productions and events. The hall will reopen next Tuesday (October 10) with Maidenhead Musical Comedy Society's production of 42nd Street.

The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead