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Virgin Media have recently announced changes to the email services provided to their customers. You can read about this here. The changes will impact anyone with a Virgin Media email account, including ntlworld.com, blueyonder.co.uk, virgin.net and...

Community Governance Review

Three Rivers District Council Three Rivers District Council is running a further consultation about arrangements for Parish Councils across the district. The need for this has been driven by the Local Government Reorganisation activities being undertaken by the...

National Scheme of Delegation

The government has introduced new rules covering how planning applications are decided by councils. In future, only a very limited selection of planning applications will be able to be referred to a council’s Planning Committee to be decided by Councillors. All other...

Chorleywood is being surrounded!

We’re sure you already know of the sizeable development proposals at Green Street and Catlips Farm, which if developed would undoubtedly change Chorleywood irrevocably. We now expect two more significant planning applications will shortly come forward: 100 new homes...

Local Plan – April 2026

As we covered in our last newsletter, in March the Housing Minister instructed Three Rivers District Council to add further sites to its Local Plan, including the site to the East of Green Street with an expected capacity of 678 new dwellings. Over the last month, the...

Housing Minister Forces Three Rivers to Add More Development Sites

As we reported in the February Newsletter, at the beginning of February the Housing Minister stopped the new Three Rivers Local Plan going forward to consultation so that he can review its contents due to concerns over the level of new homes it would deliver. On 18th...