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items which had appeared on the front page. 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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