Chorleywood is a special place to live
Welcome to Chorleywood Residents’ Association
We hope you find this website a useful source of helpful and interesting information about Chorleywood. Click on the tabs above for information on key topics, or scroll down to see our latest news posts.
Chorleywood Residents’ Association was established in 1968, and is run by a dedicated group of community-spirited volunteers who are passionate about maintaining the special and friendly character of Chorleywood. All Chorleywood residents are automatically members of the Residents’ Association.
You can keep up to date with news and our activities in Chorleywood by subscribing to our newsletter and visiting us on Facebook and Twitter.
Chorleywood Residents’ Association is funded by voluntary donations from residents, membership of our 100 Club, and local businesses advertising in our twice-yearly magazine, The Chorleywood Resident, which is delivered to each and every household in Chorleywood Parish.
Volunteers are always welcome, please get in touch using our Contact Form if you’d like to get involved!
If you have any problems or suggestions, please use our Contact Us page to let us know.
Planning Fighting Fund
The Parish is under more threat from excessive development than at any time in living memory. There are planning applications for significant numbers of new dwellings being proposed in Green Belt on Green Street and Catlips Farm, and the new draft Local Plan contains several large sites, including the Green Street site added to the Plan by the Housing Minister against the District Council’s wishes.
To best respond in challenging some of these proposals, we will need highly specialised advice, guidance and representation, which is likely to be very expensive. To fund this, the Parish Council has established a fighting fund and has committed to match every donation made by parishioners to the fund up to a total of £50,000.
We support the Parish Council taking the lead on this as they are best placed to represent the Parish as the Council is a Statutory Consultee. This gives the Council a clearer voice and puts the Council in prime position to represent us. At our recent AGM, we committed to make a significant donation to the Fund.
We ask residents to support the Council in its efforts to defend the area from what has the potential to be an existential threat to the nature and character of Chorleywood.
Further information and the link to the donation site can be found at https://www.chorleywood-pc.gov.uk/protect-chorleywoods-green-belt-planning-fighting-fund-established/
Join our 100 Club, the odds are good!
Every month we draw four prizes for our 100 Club members: three of £10 and one of £50 (except May and December when the top prize is £100!). That’s 48 chances to win each year, and with fewer than 150 members your annual chance of winning over 30%!
Each membership costs £30 per year, and you’re allowed as many entries as you like. At £2.50 per month it’s less than the price of a coffee..
CRA is funded by 100 Club memberships and donations, so help us to support Chorleywood, and maybe you’ll be a winner!
Hot topics
Local Area Forum – Your Chance to Question Your Councillors
Do you have questions or concerns about the state of the roads, planning applications and developments in the area, the Local Plan, in fact anything that your Councils are involved with (or might know about)? There will be a Local Area Forum on 3rd June starting at...
Planning Fighting Fund
The Parish is under more threat from excessive development than at any time in living memory. There are planning applications for significant numbers of new dwellings being proposed in Green Belt on Green Street and Catlips Farm, and the new draft Local Plan contains...
Keep Dogs on Leads on Chorleywood Common
Chorleywood Common is a designated Local Nature Reserve and to promote and protect breeding birds and other wildlife, Chorleywood Parish Council is requesting that in specific areas on the Common (see full statement) all dogs are kept on a short, 2m long lead during...
Chorleywood u3a sponsored walks for Mission EmployAble
On Monday 29th June members of Chorleywood u3a will be taking part in sponsored walks to raise money for Mission EmployAble. The walks are over a range of distances between 3 and 15 miles, with also a a “Furry Friends” 2.5 mile dog walk option! Members of the walking...
We’re looking for volunteer assistants — no committee obligations
Chorleywood is a great place to live, one of the best. We’re co-operating with the Chorleywood u3a to find some assistants to provide occasional help for our committee members. Do you want to contribute to Chorleywood life, without the obligation to attend committee...
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...
Do you have printed copies of old editions of TCR?
A few years ago I started scanning older copies of our printed magazine The Chorleywood Resident and publishing them on the Chorleywood History page of our website. One edition (004) was from February 1970 so over 50 years ago. They are a fascinating read,...
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