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items which had appeared on the front page. Annual Parish Meeting The Annual Parish Meeting
for the parish of Wednesday 4th
April 2012 at 8 p.m. in the North Mymms Memorial Hall Station Road, You are welcome to attend the meeting so please come and hear what
your Parish Council has been doing and raise issues relevant to the parish (note: only electors registered in the parish may vote) Grant application forms are available now North Mymms Parish Council has a limited budget and may make grants on
a discretionary basis to voluntary organisations and community groups who
provide services that benefit the economic, environmental and social
wellbeing of residents of the Parish of For further information or a grant application form please contact the
Clerk (details below) ____________________________________________________________________________________________ have invited Veolia Environmental Services to attend a meeting of the Council to be held at the North Mymms Youth and Community Centre Station Road, on Wednesday 16th November 2011 at 7 p.m. Veolia will give a
presentation to the Council, including an explanation of why the Energy for
Waste facility is being proposed at New Barnfield, provide information on the
facility and how it operates, they expect to be able to give details of the
results of the Environmental Assessment, and your Parish Councillors will be
asking them questions. Members of the public and press are welcome to
attend. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Best kept front garden Parish councillors are
checking all front gardens in the parish and nominating a short list. The chairman will then select the best one in the
parish. Last year was the first such
event and the winner was in Pine Grove.
Good luck. Local elections – 5th
May 2011. Local elections were on 5th May 2011, and the resulting councillors are listed on ‘Councillors and MP’ page – click here.
Office opening times Starting Monday 11th April the office will be
open on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
from 9am to 4.30pm. Due to staff holidays the office will not
be open on Thursdays 5th and 12th May 2011. The Parish Clerk is Mrs Ann Morton. The bookkeeper is Mrs Jackie Stewart who works
Mondays. Revised meeting dates in May
2011. Please note that due to the local elections on 5th May
2011 our meeting dates in May have had to be re-arranged. They are now as follows: 18th May 2011 - Annual Meeting starting at 7.45pm. 25th May 2011 - Finance meeting at 7.15pm, then an
Amenities committee at about 7.45pm, and finally a Planning committee meeting
at about 8.30pm. Vacancy - Parish Clerk He/she will
manage the council’s business and also be the Responsible Financial Officer.
The Clerk must be computer-literate and able to work on his/her own. The
Clerk supervises a part-time bookkeeper and three groundsmen. Previous local government experience would
be useful, together with a willingness to attain CiLCA
qualification. The
position is for 21 hours a week plus attending two evening meetings each
month. An hourly rate in accordance with nationally agreed pay scales and
conditions is payable and will depend on ability and experience. To apply
please forward your CV and a covering letter to The Council Office, 1A
Bushwood Close, Welham Green AL9 7YZ or e-mail: northmymmspc@waitrose.com . Closing date for applications – Friday
18 February 2011 Staff vacancy – 1st
November 2010 Part-time (1 day/week) Book-keeper Experienced book-keeper to maintain computerised
records, payroll, budget control. Training provided on ‘Scribe’ accounting system. Salary/hours negotiable Contact the Clerk, Mrs Helen Rook, on 01707 268418 (Mon and Wed) Parish Council office opening
hours in August Due to staff holidays, the office will only be open in August on
Wednesdays 18th and 25th August from about 9.30am to
noon. Telephone messages, mail and
Emails will be checked each week and actions taken on urgent items if
possible. Normal hours will recommence
from Wednesday 1st September 2010. Best kept front garden competition Judging took place in July 2010 and a close result finished
up with a garden in Pine Grove being the winner. The owner of the house and garden will be
presented with his certificate at a gathering in October. Best kept front garden competition
Meeting start times changed Please note that the full council meetings, normally on the last
Wednesday of each month, will now start at 7.45pm. The mid-month meetings of the Amenities
committee (when held) will start at 7.30pm.
Mid-month Planning committee meetings will start at 7.30pm except when
preceded by an Amenities committee meeting, in which case they will follow
immediately afterwards. The Finance
meetings will remain at a 7.15pm start. The reason is that the volume of business has increased, causing
very late finishing times. The earlier
start should enable a reasonable finishing time. Postal address change Please note that our postal address
has changed to the one given below Annual Meeting At the parish council’s annual meeting held on 27
May 2009, Councillor Vivian Weeks was elected as chairman of the council for
2009/10. The three committee chairmen
and vice-chairmen were elected Gobions Open Space playground The second phase of replacing the play equipment
has now been completed and mainly consisted of equipment for younger
children. Why not give it a try? Annual Meeting At the parish council’s annual meeting held on 27
May 2009, Councillor Vivian Weeks was elected as chairman of the council for
2009/10. The three committee chairmen
and vice-chairmen were elected Gobions Open Space playground The second phase of replacing the play equipment
has now been completed and mainly consisted of equipment for younger
children. Why not give it a try? The Parish Plan Steering Group is to hold three
drop-in meetings where you can have your say in the future of your
community. You can make a
difference. You are invited to drop
in, talk over what the plan is all about, get more information, and talk over
your ideas. The meetings will be held
on: Saturday 16 May 2009 from 11 am to 1 pm at
Brookmans Park URC church Saturday 16 May 2009 from 2 pm to 4 pm at North
Mymms Memorial Hall, Station Rd, Welham Green & Wednesday 20 May 2009 from 7 pm to 9 pm at Little
Heath Parish hall, Edmund Room, Thornton Rd, Little Heath. For more information, contact the chairman of the
steering group on 01707 652304 or email to nmpp AT
parish-plan.org.uk. (Please substitute @ where it says ‘AT’, which has
been done this way to try and stop ‘spammers’.) Minutes Annual
Public Meeting held in March 2008 have been added now that they have been
approved. Free swimming sessions for children aged 5 to 15 During school
holidays children aged between 5 and 15 can swim free at certain times. See www.finesseleisure.com
and Hatfield Swim Centre for details. Phone 01707 276276
for details. Freedom of Information Act 2000 Click on the ‘Policies’ in the side bar for what information is
available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and how to obtain
it. We have also added several policy
documents. Terms of Reference have been added for the Amenities committee and
Planning committee Parish Plan North Mymms Parish Council has decided to promote the production of
a Parish Plan. This will enable
members of the communities in Welham Green, Brookmans Park, Little Heath and
surrounding areas to have a say in the future of the area in which we live
and work. A Steering Group comprised of local residents and business people
has been set up and is asking as many people as possible to let it have their
ideas. You can send up to five suggestions to improve these communities to
the Chairman of the NM Parish Plan Steering Group at 49 Osborne Road, Little
Heath, Potters Bar, Herts EN6 1SB. You can email them to nmpp AT parish-plan.org.uk
(please use ‘&’ instead of ‘AT’.
This has been written like this to reduce the risk of spammers picking
up the email address). Your name and address etc are optional but it would help to know who
you are and enable you to have further information. Your details will not be shared with any
other party and will be treated as confidential. - Our latest calendar is now only available at the Parish Council office, Bushwood Close, off Dellsome Lane, Welham Green, AL9 7YZ at a price of £6.80 each including postage to a UK address. The cheque should be payable to 'North Mymms Parish Council'. Our latest calendar is now on sale with the price unchanged at £6. From Monday 12th January 2009 the calendar price is
reduced by 40% to £4 each. As last year, it shows
the ‘changing face of
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the Dutch Nursery, -
the -
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'Welham Greens' greengrocers on They can also be bought at the Parish Council office, Bushwood Close, off Dellsome Lane, Welham Green, AL9 7YZ at a price of £6.80 each including postage to a UK address. The cheque should be payable to 'North Mymms Parish Council'. Gobions Open Space July 2008 - The strange sand-filled lines are the
result of work to improve the drainage on this playing field. This should complete the work started in
2005. A major updating of the children’s play equipment
at Gobions Open Space took place in August 2008. Planning committee meeting dates The parish council now has only three weeks in
order to object or comment on planning applications. Consequently the dates of meetings have had
to be revised from August 2008 onwards..
See link at side to the ‘Meeting dates’ page. Parish Plan A meeting was held on Monday 23rd June
at NM Youth and Community Centre which was attended by a number of
representatives of local organisations.
The objective was to form a Steering Group which would initiate the
work necessary to produce a Parish Plan.
The parish council is to make further contact with local residents and
businesses on this proposal. Annual Meeting – new chairman At the council’s annual meeting held on 28th
May 2008, Councillor Mrs Jacqui Boulton was elected as chairman, and
Councillor Vivian Weeks as Vice Chairman.
The chairmen of the three committees were re-elected. The annual accounts for the year 2007/8 were
signed and will be presented for audit.
Once they have been approved by the auditors they will be added to
this website. Youth shelter The
‘Welham Green As One’ group has provided a shelter for the use by local
youths on the playing fields off Welwyn Hatfield
Council elections 1st May 2008. The
standing councillors have all been re-elected for
the wards of Welham Green and of Minutes The minutes of the 2007 Annual Public Meeting
have now been approved and added to this website. See ‘Minutes of all meetings and scroll
down to March 2007. New Welwyn Hatfield Councillor
for Welham Green ward Councillor Doug Berry was elected on 3rd January
2008. We were very pleased that he was
able to attend our full Council meeting on 30th January 2008,
particularly as a representatives of the new ‘Welham Green As One’ youth
project, including two of the young members, made their case for a new Youth
Shelter on Parish Council land. Parish Council Precept The main source of finance for the Parish Council
is the ‘precept’ which is collected by Welwyn Hatfield Council as part of the
annual Council Tax payment. The Parish
Council precept for 2008/9 will be £175,100, an increase of 2.5%. Annual accounts
and balance sheet This website now includes the Parish Council’s
audited accounts to Sold
out – even the one intended for the office! This
double-sided A4 size calendar has lots of diary space. Each month shows comparable pictures of a
current scene and what it looked like 50-100 or more years ago. This
double-sided A4 size calendar has lots of diary space. Each month shows comparable pictures of a
current scene and what it looked like 50-100 or more years ago. The
price is £6. If buying from the parish
council office by mail the price is £6.60 including postage and your cheque
should be payable to ‘North Mymms Parish Council’. It
is now on sale at -
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Welham Greens, greengrocers on -
Potterells Medical Centre, -
Dutch Nursery, and -
the Parish Council office (address below). The parish council has produced a calendar for
2007 showing pictures of 13 Police Community
Support Officer Earlier in 2006, Herts Constabulary offered the
services of a PCSO to the parish if the council would provide 50% of the
funding for two years. The cost in a
full year was originally stated as roughly £16,000 but this was later reduced
to about £14,000. In June and July 2006 the Parish Council carried
out a survey of all 3,600 residences in the parish to see if residents would
be willing to pay up to about 10% more next year to the Parish Council to
part-fund this PCSO. About 20% replied
with 319 for the proposal and 339 against. At its meeting on Co-opted
Councillors At the parish council meeting on Wednesday East of The draft Plan (EEP) was consulted upon in late
2004 and an Examination in Public was held in 2005/6. The report of the Panel was issued in June
2006, and a further round of consultation is expected in late 2006. In the covering letter
sent to Ruth Kelly MP, the Panel said that the volume of development will be
controversial for many, and the Plan had to deal with climate change and
ensure the creation of sustainable communities. It finished by saying here is very
widespread concern about whether resources will be found to make all this
development truly sustainable. Covering the period 2001-2021, the latest version
has increased the number of dwelling for Welwyn Hatfield from the original
5,800 to 10,000. This must entail
building on the Green Belt. At its
meeting on North Mymms
Memorial Hall Golden Jubilee Located on The planning of a Memorial
Hall started in 1927and it took 30 years to raise the money and build the
hall. In that time the community
changed significantly with housing development and the creation of The Hall is held in trust by North Mymms Parish Council with the running of it delegated to a management committee. The uses of the hall range almost from A to Z, from afternoon teas and annual lunches, to dancing, drama, lectures, polling station, public meetings, salsa, Scrabble, tango and tae kwondo. Golden Jubilee celebration A week of events is
proposed from E-mail her at daphnedean@tiscali.co.uk Councillor Pat
Storey Pat Storey passed away on 4th March this year after a short illness. Many will have known her as having represented the Welham Green ward on North Mymms Parish Council and Welwyn Hatfield Councillor for about 30 years. She was Parish Council chairman six times and chairman of Welwyn Hatfield Council in 2004/5. But that was just a part
of her life. Pat was born in Dogs were another long-term passion and she even had one which qualified for Crufts. She still had a Rhodesian Ridgeback. Pat, and her equally
well-known husband Bill, moved here in 1954 and both became very involved in
the area. She had been a governor at
Chancellor’s School and Apart from all that, Pat had 3 children and 7 grandchildren. A Memorial Service was
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