About Us

ABOUT THREE RIVERS

Three Rivers offers an ideal mixture of beautiful countryside, excellent leisure facilities, good communications, historic buildings, purpose built offices and well located parks and public open spaces.

The District has large areas of attractive open countryside, much of it Green Belt. In Three Rivers it is not uncommon to travel along leafy lanes surrounded by areas of outstanding natural beauty yet be only minutes away from the M25, Britain's busiest motorway.

Water is an important element of Three Rivers, with the three small local rivers, the Chess, Gade and Colne giving the District its name. The Grand Union Canal runs through the District and the Council-owned Aquadrome provides a unique mixture of open space, walks, sailing and watersports. Other leisure facilities in the area include Watersmeet, a multi-purpose entertainment centre; swimming pools; sports pitches; golf courses and numerous parks and playing fields.

Being on the outer fringes of London, communications in the area are very good with road and rail links to London and elsewhere, including the M1, M25, the west coast main line and the metropolitan Line into central London. The planned Croxley Link would provide direct rail links with central Watford. Heathrow and Luton airports are nearby.

The district contains a number of locations which will appeal to those looking to relocate. Rickmansworth is a pleasant town with a number of high quality office premises of varying sizes. These include refurbished buildings with small suites as well as new purpose-built developments. Other areas within the District contain business parks, including Maple Cross, Tolpits Lane, Abbots Langley, Croxley Green and Leavesden.

The Three Rivers Official Guide features an A-Z of services and contact details and can be downloaded below.  The Official District Map can also be downloaded below.

ABOUT THE DISTRICT COUNCIL

Three Rivers District Council was established in 1974 by combining the former Urban Districts of Rickmansworth and Chorleywood with part of the Rural District of Watford. The main offices are located in Rickmansworth in Three Rivers House, opened in 1991.

The Council is composed of 48 Councillors who are each elected to serve for four years.  The current composition of the Council is:

• Liberal Democrats: 31
• Conservative: 12
• Labour: 4
• BNP: 1

Councillors are democratically accountable to residents for their ward. Although the overriding duty of Councillors is to the whole community they have a special duty to their ward.

OUR OFFICE

The main Council Office is at Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, Herts WD3 1RL

Full contact details and opening hours

OUR PRIORITIES

The Council has adopted the four Themes of the Community Strategy as a focus for its work across the District. The four themes are:

• Safer Communities
• Sustainable Communities
• Prosperous Communities
• Healthy Communities

The themes form the foundation on which to develop and deliver the Strategic Plan. Also contributing to these themes will be a range of other Strategies and Plans such as the Best Value Performance Plan, Medium Term Financial Plan, and Cultural Strategy. These are further underpinned by individual Service Plans and Team Action Plans.

The policy priorities identified in the 2007- 2010 Strategic Plan are:

• Reduce the fear of crime
• Reduce the number of incidents of violence
• Conserve resources
• Conserve open spaces and increase the amount accessible to the public by 2008
• Reduce pockets of deprivation across the district so that by 2008 no ward in the district will be in the bottom quartile of the Government's overall Indices of Deprivation
• Work towards equalising opportunities for access to transport across the district
• Improve economic vitality
• Ensure that the employee base is maintained across the district
• Contribute to the years of good health and independent living enjoyed by older people
• Young people to benefit from a healthy lifestyle
• Adults to enjoy the benefits of a healthy lifestyle