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Local Plan Regulation 18 Consultation: Newly Submitted Sites and New Policies (Part 5) – Deadline 31st August

This message from Three Rivers District Council is what we’ve all been waiting for! It’s important that our members contribute to this consultation on any sites or development in our area.

Three Rivers District Council is preparing a new Local Plan that will guide and manage future development in the district up to 2041. Following on from the previous Regulation 18 consultations which took place in 2021 and 2023, we are now carrying out a supplementary consultation on newly submitted sites and new policies. This Regulation 18 Newly Submitted Sites and New Policies (Part 5) Consultation contains new sites that were submitted for the Council’s consideration following a call for sites exercise earlier in 2025. Individual site assessments for these potential site allocations for housing have been undertaken as part of the Strategic Housing & Employment Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA) which is used to identify sites and broad locations with potential for development. This consultation also includes policies which have not yet been consulted on.

It is important to note these sites are in addition to those consulted on in 2021 and 2023. We are asking for your views on these potential new sites so we can consider them together with the previously submitted responses to previous Regulation 18 consultations. This will help us in drawing up a final proposal. To view and respond online to this consultation please visit the Council’s Have Your Say consultation platform, link below:

Link to Consultation Survey (scroll down to ‘Take Survey’ button):
https://haveyoursay.threerivers.gov.uk/local-plan-newly-submitted-sites-policies-consultation

Hard copies of the consultation document and supporting documents can also be viewed in the Council’s offices in Rickmansworth and at the public libraries located in the district. Written responses can be submitted by post to: Planning Policy, Three Rivers District Council, Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, Herts, WD3 1RL

The consultation period starts on Wednesday 16th July 2025 and ends at 11:59pm on Sunday 31st August 2025.

Further reading

The Local Plan Regulation 18 Consultation Documents, accompanying Sustainability Appraisal Working Notes and the evidence base studies which have been completed so far can be viewed on the Council’s website at: https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/services/planning/planning-policy/new-local-plan

By R.D.R.A., ago

Joint Residents’ Association comments on reform of planning committees

The Joint Residents’ Association (JRA) has responded to the technical consultation about the reform of planning committees. Click here to read the JRAs response. Please contact us if you have any comments on the JRAs response.

Note, the JRA combines lots of local associations and therefore have a stronger voice together:

  • Bedmond Residents Association;
  • Can’t Replace Our Green Space;
  • Carpenters Park Residents Association;
  • Chorleywood Residents Association;
  • Chandlers Cross Residents Association;
  • Croxley Green Residents Association;
  • Eastbury Residents Association;
  • Kings Langley & District Residents Association;
  • Maple Cross & West Hyde Residents Association;
  • Moor Park Residents Association;
  • Oxhey Hall Residents Association;
  • Rickmansworth & District Residents Association;
  • Hunton Bridge.
By R.D.R.A., ago

Reform of planning committees: technical consultation. Deadline 20th June

Following on from yesterday’s Joint Residents’ Association meeting, here is a link to the consultation paper on the National Scheme of Delegation for Planning Committees that asks 20 questions. Please review and let us have your thoughts by 20th June so consensus views can be pulled together from all Residents’ Associations.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/reform-of-planning-committees-technical-consultation/reform-of-planning-committees-technical-consultation

By R.D.R.A., ago

TRDC Local Plan

You may be aware that Three Rivers District Council has developed a Local Plan which is now out for public consultation.

The time has been extended to the 20th of August for residents to respond to the Local Plan due to a delay in the information being distributed to everyone.

You can find details of the new Local Plan at
www.threerivers.gov.uk/egcl-page/new-local-plan

We are pleased to see that many sites we objected to in 2018 have been removed from the list and there is now only one site we are totally against and will be opposing, and three others where we have advised Matthew Bedford, lead on planning at TRDC, of our concerns.

Other sites we are not objecting to but, in all cases, subject to privacy of surrounding residents and other points such as disposal of sewage, access both during construction and when in use, parking etc.

We will look at each planning application as it comes up and do our best to ensure that these points are considered.

We understand that the 600+ dwellings and new school planned for Batchworth Golf Course will not be able to go ahead as the Golf Club have a long lease on the premises and land. It could, of course, be that a compulsory purchase order is used to turn this round but Moor Park Residents’ Association are set against the plan. RDRA have put in a request for the site to be reduced if dwellings are proposed on this site.

By Michael Stimpson, ago