Members’ area
The YouTube video below shows the housing minister Matthew Pennycook in a panel discussion last week with a collection of planning barristers (who mainly represent developers and landowners). The first question for the minister is around 2 minutes in.
(Formerly Local Strategic Partnership and Community Safety Board)
Held in Penn Chamber, Three Rivers House, Rickmansworth.
Agenda and further information about this meeting can be found on TRDC’s website:
https://moderngov.threerivers.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1240&MId=1955
This meeting usually discuss a wide range of topics related to improving the quality of life, safety, and wellbeing of residents in the Three Rivers district through partnership working.
Visit the High Street between 10.30am to 2.30pm.
Let’s support the stall holders and businesses in Rickmansworth High Street next weekend. Find some lovely and unusual Christmas presents. Come and chat with us at our RDRA stall.
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Message from London Green Belt Council.
An existential threat to the very concept of the Metropolitan Green Belt appears to be emerging as land owners, developers and local authorities alike have this year begun to use the NPPF December 2024 ‘grey belt’ definition to reclassify Green Belt sites for development. Far from the idea presented by government ministers of ‘grey belt’ as small sites, of low-quality and previously developed, many are extensive, agricultural land and/or highly biodiverse.
The London Green Belt Council is seeking photographs (using a mobile is fine) plus brief details of land now redesignated by LAs or argued by developers to be ‘grey belt’.
And if details available:
If you do not know all the details, the Location and Reference will suffice.
We hope to create a record of how the new NPPF affects our valuable countryside and present it to government and the media in February 2026.
Please send details plus photos as a separate attachment (jpg or similar) by email to info@londongreenbeltcouncil.org.uk by Friday 16 January 2026.
Please keep it simple. See examples on page 2 in document below:
https://rickmansworthresidents.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/PHOTOS-OF-GREY-BELT-LGBC.pdf
https://rickmansworthresidents.org/2024/05/planning-and-local-plan/
Come and see the Christmas lights being switched on in Ricky High Street at 4pm!
There will be various food and drink stalls, live music, fairground rides and seasonal treats – dress up warm and see you there!
Let’s support stall holders and businesses in Rickmansworth High Street this Sunday. There will be: Artisan Food • Wreath Making • Gifts • Advent Calendars.
The RDRA will also be there so come and visit our stall to chat about local issues!
PCSO Beeson from the Rickmansworth Neighbourhood Policing Team will be also be around on Sunday and keen to hear about any concerns you have regarding Anti-Social Behaviour, crime or any other issues affecting you or our local community.
After the recent consultation on this issue, the council voted 7 to 4 in favour of a three unitary authority model.
Cllr Stephen Giles-Medhurst, Leader of the Council, said: “The council has made its decision on what we believe is in the best interests of this district and the residents we serve. It is vital that councils have a strong connection to the communities they serve in order that those communities still feel connected and that they have a say.”
Today, 28 November, the final council submission to the government will be made followed by another public consultation in the Spring and the final final decision on which model it will support – two, three or four unitaries – is expected in Summer 2026.
Read more about it on TRDC website:
https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/news/trdc-supports-three-unitary-model
Beryl Bikes will be coming to Rickmansworth after a successful scheme was piloted in Croxley Green.
36 new e-bikes could be supplied with 13 new bays installed in areas such as near the Aquadrome in Rickmansworth, Leavesden Country Park and Carpenders Park Station.
Read more about it on TRDC website:
https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/news/beryl-bike-scheme-expansion
Please join us as we march at 2pm from Our Lady’s Church (at the bottom of Scotsbridge Hill) to St Mary’s Church in Rickmansworth to lay a wreath & remember all those who have died in war.