Three Rivers District Council

For the local council of the Boy Scouts of America, see Three Rivers Council (Texas).

Coordinates: 51°38′20″N 0°28′08″W / 51.639°N 0.469°W / 51.639; -0.469

Three Rivers District Council
Type
Type	Non-metropolitan district council of the Three Rivers District
Leadership
Kemal Butt	Councillor Chris Whately-Smith, Liberal Democrats
Leader of the Council	Councillor Ann Shaw OBE, Liberal Democrats
Conservative Group Leader	Councillor Chris Hayward, Conservative
Labour Group Leader	Councillor Stephen King, Labour
Structure
Seats	48
Committees	Link to Council Meetings
Elections
Voting system	Plurality voting system
Last election	5 May 2011
Meeting place
Three Rivers House, Northway, Rickmansworth, WD3 1RL
Website
http://www.threerivers.gov.uk

Three Rivers District Council is the local authority for the Three Rivers non-metropolitan district of England, the United Kingdom. Three Rivers is located in the south-west of Hertfordshire, in the East of England region. The Council itself is based in Rickmansworth, the largest settlement in the district, but also comprises Abbots Langley, Chorleywood, Croxley Green, Maple Cross, Mill End, Sarratt and South Oxhey.

The Council consists of 39 elected members, representing thirteen electoral wards following a Boundary Commission review which came into effect on 22 May 2014. Each ward returns three councillors. Previously, there were 48 seats: half of the wards elected two councillors each. Nine elected three councillors each. One (Sarratt) elected one.

The Council is led by the Liberal Democrats, who hold 19, of the 39 seats. The Conservatives form the second-largest faction, with 17, of the seats followed by Labour with 3 seats ^[1]

Composition

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 2011 elections, the council remained under Liberal Democrat control, having been first won by the Lib Dems from no overall control in 1999. The District has also remained Lib Dem-run in 2014.

As of the 2012 elections, the composition of the council was:

Party		Councillors	Change
	Liberal Democrat	28	-1
	Conservative	14	0
	Labour	6	+2
	English Democrats	0	-1
Total		48	-
Source: [Three Rivers District Council http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/LocalElections]

The local elections in 2014 returned a council with a make up as follows

Liberal Democrats 23 Conservative 12 Labour 3

giving the Liberal Democrats a majority of 8 over the opposition.

County council

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 the Labour Party:

Seat	Councillor
Abbots Langley	Sara Bedford	Liberal Democrat
Chorleywood	Chris Hayward	Conservative
Croxley	Steve Drury	Liberal Democrat
Oxhey Park	Frances Button	Conservative
Rickmansworth	Ralph Sangster	Conservative
South Oxhey	Joan King	Labour

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 (now 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 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 held by the Conservative Anne Main.

Seat	Wards	MP
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

Wards

Three Rivers consists of twenty wards. Wards electing three members are denoted with asterisks (*). Sarratt, denoted with an obelisk (†), elects one member.

Councillors

Three Rivers District Council is composed of 48 councillors elected from the 20 wards. As only half of wards elect three councillors, not all wards elect in any one given year; at any one annual election, one-third (16) are elected, not counting the necessity of by-elections.

Councillors are divided into classes depending on the year of their retirement. Usually, this will be four years after their election. However, if a ward elects two members at a given election (because of a by-election being held at the same time as a normal election), the councillor with the most votes receives the later of the two available retirement dates.

Ward	Councillors (by year of retirement)
Ward	2011		2012		2014
Abbots Langley		Matthew Bedford		David Major		Sara Bedford
Ashridge		Graham Denman		Seamus Dunne	N/A
Bedmond and Primrose Hill		Richard Laval	N/A			Joy Mann
Carpenders Park		Pam Hames		Geoffrey Dunne		Eric Bishop
Chorleywood East	N/A			Chris Hayward		Guy Davis
Chorleywood West		Barbara Green		Harry Davies		Martin Trevett
Croxley Green		Dr Leighton Dann		Brian Norman		Roger Seabourne
Croxley Green North		Chris Lloyd	N/A			Steve Drury
Croxley Green South		Phil Brading	N/A			Brian White
Hayling		Phil Redshaw		Kerron Cross	N/A
Langleybury		Paul Goggins		Chris Whately-Smith		Chris Ayrton
Leavesden		Stephen Giles-Medhurst		Sue Bartrick		Kate Turner
Maple Cross and Mill End		Ann Shaw		Peter Wakeling		Chris Lucas
Moor Park and Eastbury		Ralph Sangster		Amrit Mediratta		Kemal Butt
Northwick		Ron Spellen		Malcolm Butwick		Ty Harris
Oxhey Hall		Peter Ray		Alison Scarth	N/A
Penn	N/A			Sarah Nelmes		Les Mead
Rickmansworth	N/A			Paula Hiscocks		David Sansom
Rickmansworth West	N/A			Russell Smith		Barbara Lamb
Sarratt		Tony Barton	N/A		N/A
Source: Three Rivers District Council

Council history

About the 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.

Link to Council Office details

Overall control of Three Rivers District Council

Year	Control
1973		No overall control
1976		Conservative
1986		No overall control
1987		SDP–Liberal Alliance
1988		Liberal Democrat
1990		No overall control
1999		Liberal Democrat
2011		Liberal Democrat

External links

Three Rivers District Council official website

References

↑ http://www.threerivers.gov.uk/Default.aspx/Web/ContactingYourCouncillor

Local authorities in Hertfordshire

County council	Hertfordshire

District councils	Broxbourne Dacorum East Hertfordshire Hertsmere North Hertfordshire St Albans Stevenage Three Rivers Watford Welwyn Hatfield

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, April 18, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.