FD Appointment

Slough Estates PLC
16 December 2005


                                SLOUGH ESTATES PLC
                           ANNOUNCES NEW FINANCE DIRECTOR

The Board of Slough Estates plc announces the appointment of David Sleath as
executive director responsible for Group Finance. David Sleath has been Deputy
Finance Director at Slough Estates since April 2005.

Ian Coull, Chief Executive of Slough Estates, said: 'In the nine months that
David has been with us, he has already made a significant contribution to the
development of our business. The Board is delighted that we have such an
excellent candidate to fill the role of Finance Director.'

Before joining Slough Estates, David Sleath spent five years as Finance Director
at Wagon plc, the automotive engineering and manufacturing group. A Fellow of
the Institution of Chartered Accountants, he trained at Arthur Andersen,
becoming a Partner in 1992 and Head of Audit and Assurance for the Midland
Region in 1995. He will take up his new responsibilities on 1 January 2006.

David Sleath will succeed the current Finance Director, Dick Kingston. Dick
Kingston will remain a Group Board Executive Director, and become Chairman of
Slough Estates' Continental European business. Growth in Continental Europe is
one of the Group's key targets.

Paying tribute to Dick Kingston, Ian Coull said 'The Board is extremely grateful
to Dick for his contribution to the business over the past eighteen years, the
last nine as Finance Director. We are pleased that he has agreed to continue
working with us in this new capacity. A key phase in the strategic development
of our Continental European business is now well underway - during this period
Dick will oversee the development of its corporate structure.'

Slough Estates                 The Maitland Consultancy
Michael Waring                 Colin Browne
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Notes to editors
Slough Estates plc
(Listed on the London Stock Exchange - stock code: SLOU.L)
www.sloughestates.com
Slough Estates is a leading provider of flexible business space in business
parks in Western Europe and North America, with over 1500 customers occupying
approximately 3m square metres of business space. Slough Estates' properties are
in suburban locations in close proximity to the main business centres, where
there is long term demand for business accommodation to serve these key economic
regions.

The company's main activities are currently based around London, Brussels,
Paris, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, San Francisco and San Diego and 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. www.sloughestates.com




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