A Rough Guide to who does what in Batchworth
Three Rivers District Council is responsible for the following services:
- Arts
- Community advice and support
- Council tax collection
- Dog litter bin collections
- Economic development
- Electoral services
- Environmental services, e.g. noise, pest control
- Grants
- Help and support for businesses
- Housing services
- Licensing
- Listed building control
- Car Parks
- Planning services (for a direct link to new and past applications go to https://www.threerivers.gov.uk/page/planning-online
- Recycling, food waste and residual waste collections
- Restaurant and takeaway inspections
- Sport and leisure centres
- Rickmansworth Aquadrome
- Watersmeet Theatre
- Street cleaning and dealing with fly tipping
- Tree preservation
- Unauthorised occupation of Council land by travellers and others
Hertfordshire County Council is responsible for the following services
- Older person's bus passes
- Education and schools
- Fire Service and community safety
- Heritage
- Highways including potholes, tourism signs, gritting,
- Libraries, recreation, arts, museums
- Lighting - highways and footways
- Public rights of way, including footpaths and bridleways
- Recreation, arts & museums
- Registration of births, deaths & marriages
- Social services (adults)
- Strategic planning and some planning applications (mainly mineral extraction and waste disposal sites)
- Trading standards
- Traffic and transport including road safety
- Waste recycling centres
If you are still not sure, just contact the BCC Clerk who will be pleased to help.
