Three Rivers (district)

Three Rivers District
Shown within Hertfordshire
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	East of England
Admin. County:	Hertfordshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 253rd 88.81 km²
Admin. HQ:	Rickmansworth
ONS code:	26UJ
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	89.4% White 5.7% S.Asian 2.0% Black 1.7% Mixed Race 1.2% Chinese or Other
Politics
Three Rivers District Council http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:
MPs:	David Gauke, Anne Main, Claire Ward

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. The three rivers of the name are the Chess, Gade and Colne.

Politics

District council

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 2008 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 2007)
31	0
12	+1
4	-2
1	+1
Total		48	-
Source: BBC News

County council

For elections to Hertfordshire County Council, the district is divided into six constituencies, three of which are held by the Conservatives, two by the Liberal Democrats, and one by Labour:

Seat	Councillor	Party
Abbots Langley	Paul Goggins
Chorleywood	Leonard Spencer
Croxley	David Drury
Oxhey Park	Roy Clements
Rickmansworth	Barbara Lamb
South Oxhey	Jane Hobday
Source: Hertfordshire County Council

Parliament

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 Labour's Claire Ward, 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
St Albans	Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part)	Anne Main
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
Watford	Abbots Langley, Bedmond and Primrose Hill (part), Carpenders Park, Langleybury, Leavesden, Oxhey Hall	Claire Ward
Source: Boundary Commission for England

Wards

Three Rivers is composed of twenty wards:

Transport

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:

Chorleywood served by CR and LU
Croxley LU only
Moor Park LU only
Rickmansworth CR and LU

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: