| Three Rivers District | |
|---|---|
| — Non-metropolitan district — | |
| Three Rivers shown within Hertfordshire | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | East of England |
| Non-metropolitan county | Hertfordshire |
| Status | Non-metropolitan district |
| Admin HQ | Rickmansworth |
| Incorporated | 1 April 1974 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Non-metropolitan district council |
| • Body | Three Rivers District Council |
| • Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (Liberal Democrat) |
| • MPs | David Gauke Anne Main Richard I. Harrington |
| Area | |
| • Total | 34.3 sq mi (88.8 km2) |
| Area rank | 229th (of 326) |
| Population (2010 est.) | |
| • Total | 88,900 |
| • Rank | 262nd (of 326) |
| • Density | 2,592.9/sq mi (1,001.1/km2) |
| • Ethnicity[1] | 89.4% White 5.7% S.Asian 2.0% Black 1.7% Mixed Race 1.2% Chinese or Other |
| Time zone | GMT (UTC0) |
| • Summer (DST) | BST (UTC+1) |
| ONS code | 26UJ |
| OS grid reference | TQ0591494481 |
| Website | www.threerivers.gov.uk |
Three Rivers is a local government district in Hertfordshire in the East of England. Its council is based in Rickmansworth.
It was formed on 1 April 1974 by the merger of Rickmansworth Urban District and Chorleywood Urban District with part of Watford Rural District.[2] The three rivers of the name are the Chess, Gade and Colne.
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Three Rivers is a non-metropolitan district that elects one-third of its councillors at any one time: three times every four years, with the fourth for elections to Hertfordshire County Council). In the 2010 elections, the council remained under Liberal Democrat control, having been first won by the Lib Dems from no overall control in 1999.
As of the 2008 elections, the composition of the council is:
| Party | Councillors | Change (on 2008) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liberal Democrat | 30 | -1 | |
| Conservative | 14 | +2 | |
| Labour | 3 | -1 | |
| BNP | 1 | - | |
| Total | 48 | - | |
| Source: BBC News | |||
For elections to Hertfordshire County Council, the district is divided into six divisions, three of which are held by the Conservatives, two by the Liberal Democrats, and one by Labour:
| Seat | Councillor | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbots Langley | Paul Goggins | Liberal Democrat | |
| Chorleywood | Leonard Spencer | Conservative | |
| Croxley | Steve Drury | Liberal Democrat | |
| Oxhey Park | Roy Clements | Conservative | |
| Rickmansworth | Barbara Lamb | Conservative | |
| South Oxhey | Jane Hobday | Labour | |
| Source: Hertfordshire County Council | |||
For parliamentary elections, the district is divided across three constituencies. Most of the district is within the South West Hertfordshire constituency, which is considered a safe Conservative seat and held by a Conservative MP (currently David Gauke) since its creation in 1950. The eastern parts of the constituency, to the north and south of Watford, are part of that borough's constituency, which is a three-way marginal currently held by Conservative Richard Harrington, having fluctuated between Labour and the Conservatives. Most of the north-eastern ward of Bedmond and Primrose Hill is in the St Albans constituency, which is currently held by the Conservative Anne Main.
| Seat | Wards | MP | Party | |
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| St Albans | Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part) | Anne Main | Conservative | |
| South West Hertfordshire | Ashridge, Chorleywood East, Chorleywood West, Croxley Green, Croxley Green North, Croxley Green South, Hayling, Maple Cross and Mill End, Moor Park and Eastbury, Northwick, Penn, Rickmansworth, Rickmansworth West, Sarratt | David Gauke | Conservative | |
| Watford | Abbots Langley, Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part), Carpenders Park, Langleybury, Leavesden, Oxhey Hall | Richard Harrington | Conservative | |
| Source: Boundary Commission for England | ||||
Three Rivers is composed of twenty wards:
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Train services in the district are provided by Chiltern Railways (CR), London Midland, London Overground and the Metropolitan Line of the London Underground (LU).
London Underground stations:
The track and stations are owned by London Underground.
A special fare structure exists as the stations are outside the Greater London boundary although much of the district is within the north westerly bounds of the M25 motorway and the London commuter belt.
If the proposed Croxley Rail Link goes ahead, it would run through the district, providing two new Underground stations between Croxley and Watford Junction.
London Overground stations:
London Midland stations:
Chiltern Railways stations:
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