Directorate Change

15 December 2006

                        BOARD APPOINTMENTS

   Slough Estates plc Announces the Appointment of Lesley MacDonagh as a
     Non-Executive Director and of Walter Hens as an Executive Director


Slough Estates International is pleased to announce the appointment of Lesley
MacDonagh as a Non-executive Director on the Board of Slough Estates plc.
Lesley MacDonagh is currently a Director at Lovells - one of the largest and
most international of the major business law firms. She will be retiring from
Lovells next March. Prior to her current Directorship position at Lovells, she
was Worldwide Managing Partner and prior to that she was Head of Property,
Planning and Environmental Practices.

The directors are also pleased to announce that Walter Hens, Slough Estates
International's Managing Director, Continental Europe, is to be appointed to
the main Board as an Executive Director.

Both changes take effect on 1st January 2007.

Nigel Rich, Chairman said:

"I am delighted to welcome Lesley MacDonagh to the Board. As Slough enters the
REIT arena and continues its European expansion, Lesley MacDonagh's expertise
in property law, and experience in leading Lovells into Europe will be very
valuable to the Board.

I am also very pleased to announce that after seventeen years with the company,
Walter Hens is joining the Board as an Executive Director - he has made a major
contribution to the development of our Continental European business and in
particular to its recent successful performance. His commercial and transaction
skills will be particularly important to the Board as we continue with the
expansion programme.

These appointments bring further international strength and depth to the
management platform on which we are building the business."


For further information please contact:

Slough Estates plc                      Maitland                               
Michael Waring                          Colin Browne                           
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Notes to editors


Lesley MacDonagh
Director, Lovells

Lesley MacDonagh was made a Director of Lovells in 2006, overseeing Legal &
Skills Training, Partnership Planning, Lateral Hiring and International
Premises and Facilities. Having joined Lovells in 1971, Lesley became a partner
in 1981, then Head of Property, Planning and Environmental Practices in 1987,
then Worldwide Managing Partner from 1995 to 2005. She has been a non-executive
director at the Bovis Homes Group since 2003. Until recently she was a Governor
of the London School of Economics, a member of the Property Advisory Group for
the UK Government and a Council Member of the Law Society - where she was also
a Member of both the Property Advisory and the Planning and Environmental Law
Committees.


Walter Hens
Managing Director, Continental Europe

Responsible for the Company's o perations in Continental Europe, he is a Fellow
of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and a graduate of the University
of Antwerp, Belgium. After nine years with Imofo (now Banimmo), a developer and
investor in Belgium, he joined Slough Estates in 1989. He is a non-executive
director of Intervest Offices, a Belgian REIT. In 2004 Walter took control of
all of Slough's business in Continental European and successfully reorganised
operations - with each Country Head reporting to him, and with a new
headquarters in Paris. Since then Slough's Continental European operations have
more than doubled in size - by both acquisition and organic expansion. A record
level of over 180,000 sq m of lettings were delivered in the first half of
2006, with a further 60,000 sq m announced recently alongside an active
programme of recycling stock across major European centres. Walter joined the
Slough Executive Committee in September 2005. He is a Belgian citizen.


Slough Estates plc or Slough Estates International (SEI)

The leading European provider of flexible business space, SEI owns business
parks in Europe and North America, with property assets of £5.6bn, more than
four million square metres of business space and more than 1,700 customers. SEI
has an annual rent roll of £289m and a weighted average unexpired lease length
of 11.9 years. Flexible business space is industrial sites or business parks
put to multiple uses such as; manufacturing, light industrial, distribution
(both `small' and `big-box'), research and development, offices and
warehousing. SEI's properties are in suburban locations in close proximity to
main business centres with long-term demand for business accommodation. The
company continues to develop new business parks with the long-term objective of
building shareholder value and enhancing its reputation for quality buildings
offering excellent value to customers.(Figures quoted as at 30 June 2006)

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