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Join RDRA 100+ Club

Join the RDRA 100+ Club

Support good causes within our community and be in with a chance to win cash every quarter!

For just £60 a year (or £5 per month), you’ll be entered into our next draw with three cash prizes up for grabs – the more members, the bigger the winnings.

Once prize money is allocated, the remainder of the pot goes to a good local cause – the Mill End Food Bank this time – and for RDRA admin costs.

Simple to join and great for the community – sign up today:
https://buy.stripe.com/00g5lI7SU2QL9IA289

For further information about how it works, visit: https://rickmansworthresidents.org/100plus/

The next 100+ Club draw will take place on 14th December at the Sunday Market.

By RDRA, ago

Full Council meeting – Tuesday 9th December, 7.30pm

The public can attend this meeting but can’t ask questions unless they’re sent in writing beforehand – submit a question.

Agenda and further information about this meeting can be found on the TRDC website: https://moderngov.threerivers.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=1139&MId=1826

Full Council meetings are the main forum for Three Rivers District Council, typically to discuss and make decisions on major policies, the annual budget, and strategic plans for the district. 

By RDRA, ago

Connecting Three Rivers meeting – 11th December, 10am

(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.

By RDRA, ago
London Green Belt Council.

Grey Belt Threats – Request for Photos. Deadline 16th January.

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.

Can you help?

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’.

  • LOCATION (town/area postcode if known)
  • GREY BELT PROPOSAL REFERENCE (planning application/Local Plan)

And if details available:

  • Number of houses, energy infrastructure, solar farms etc, whether mixed development and size of the site you have photographed.
  • Any special features of the site, natural features, footpaths.

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

See this previous article which signposts to sites in Rickmansworth:

https://rickmansworthresidents.org/2024/05/planning-and-local-plan/

By R.D.R.A., ago