CRA and Planning
The association’s activities cover the full range of planning matters affecting the parish including planning applications, the development of the new Chorleywood Neighbourhood Plan, the ongoing development of the new Local Plan by Three Rivers District Council and reviewing and, where appropriate, commenting on new government rules and regulations on planning matters.
No resident should feel they are alone when facing the complexities of the planning system and, as such, the association is available to provide advice and support to all residents with regard to planning applications. This includes providing regular updates to residents on our subscription list with regard to recently posted planning applications and planning appeals.
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Latest News for Planning
District Council Pauses Local Plan
Last week, Three Rivers District Council decided that the final consultation on the new Local Plan, expected to be held in November, should be delayed due to concerns over the new Government's proposed change to the National Planning Policy Framework and issues...
NPPF Consultation September 2024
Extract from Newsletter Special Update September 2024 You probably heard the new Government's announcements at the end of July about changing planning rules to deliver more new housing. As part of this, the Government issued a draft National Planning Policy Framework...
District Council Reduces Housing Target to Protect Green Belt
As featured in the 20th June 2023 Planning Update ________________________________________ Local Residents’ Associations, both individually and through the Three Rivers Joint Residents Association, have been lobbying all levels of government for over three years to...
Housing Number for Local Plan
Following commitment from Three Rivers District Council to prepare a new Local Plan with lower new home numbers than derived from the Standard Methodology, we were concerned to see a Council response to a question at a recent Full Council meeting which stated that the...
Land East of Green Street – Update January 2023
The Council’s assessment of the Green Street applications is still ongoing. Any decision on these applications will have to be made by the full Planning Committee. It now seems that the earliest date that the applications will be considered is at the April meeting due...
New Local Plan – Update January 2023
Along with other Residents’ Associations in the district, we have been working hard to convince TRDC to reduce the number of new homes planned for in the new Local Plan so as to protect Green Belt whilst still providing the true number of homes needed to meet local...
Green Street Development Applications – Feb 2022
The consultation window for the two applications on the east side of Green Street has now closed. It is good to see that a large number of residents have submitted their comments to the council with regard to these applications. Details of the Residents Association’s...
Huge response to consultation on Local Plan
Three Rivers District Council received more than 20,000 individual comments in response to the draft Local Plan. This huge number will take longer to process than originally expected, so the next stage of consultation is now likely in November / December 2022. After...
Update on TRDC and our Chorleywood Neighbourhood Development Plan – September 2021
Last month we reported our alarm that some TRDC Councillors and Officers were dismissive of the Chorleywood Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP) in an August Planning Committee meeting. We’re pleased to tell you that TRDC's CEO agrees that our NDP has statutory...
Concerns about TRDC and application of the Chorleywood Neighbourhood Plan
At a recent Three Rivers' Planning Committee meeting we were extremely concerned that in more than one case the committee (both councillors and officers) were dismissive of the Chorleywood Neighbourhood Plan. Our Neighbourhood Plan was supported by over 89% of votes...
Chorleywood Residents’ Association Planning Policy
Adopted at the AGM on 20th May 2020
Recognising that Chorleywood residents have conflicting views on planning applications, the Chorleywood Residents’ Association’s policy is to take a neutral position. The CRA’s Planning team will continue to support all Chorleywood residents with expert planning advice and, if they wish, attend planning committee meetings in support of their case. In doing so they will not put forward any views as being those of the CRA.
CRA’s Planning team has great experience in how local authorities act on planning matters, and regularly attends local, District and Parish, planning meetings. Their independent advice and help is invaluable to Chorleywood residents.
For the avoidance of doubt, all CRA Executive Committee members remain free to submit their own personal comments on any planning application, for or against.
Read the full article and a summary of why we made the change