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Please find here a copy of the leaflet that was sent out in July as part of the Borough wide information gathering exercise on new housing. The draft Hertsmere Local Plan will be published in Spring 2021, when there will be full public consultation.

The results of the South Mimms Survey were presented to the November 2020 Parish Council Meeting in a Clerk’s Report

The report states that 62% of residents voted for the new houses to be in the zone to the north of the village, beyond the existing village footprint, whilst only 34% wanted new housing to be fitted in and around the village, with the remaining votes going to a combination of both.

Natalie Gettings, Clerk

SMPC are looking for someone to take over arranging of the Remembrance Sunday event as our current incumbent would like to step down from the role. A full handover will be given with all the relevant information on ordering wreaths, road closures etc.

If you feel you could take on this responsibility each year, please email me at southmimmspc@gmail.com

Natalie Gettings, Clerk.

We are please to announce that a Speed Indicator Device (SID) has been given approval by Highways for instillation in South Mimms.

The happy / sad face speed indicator has been placed on order from the supplier and will be installed by the end of the year.

Highways undertook a survey with senors earlier this year and have identified the most effective location as being just after the chicane coming into the village from London Colney.

Hertsmere Borough Council

Election of Parish Councillor

For the Area of 

SOUTH MIMMS PARISH COUNCIL

Having received a written request from TEN eligible electors from the Parish Area, the Proper Officer can confirm that a poll for the by-election to fill the vacancy on South Mimms Parish Council must be held in accordance with The Local Election (Parishes and Communities)(England and Wales) Rules 2006. These rules specify that an election is to be held within 60 days of receiving the said request. However due to the current Covid 19 Pandemic, emergency legislation has been passed postponing elections and referendums that would normally take place between the 16^th March 2020  and 5^th May 2021. 

Accordingly, pursuant to Sections 61 and 63 of the Coronavirus Act 2020 and Regulation 6 of the Local Government and Police and Crime Commissioner (Coronavirus) (Postponement of Elections and Referendums) (England and Wales) Regulations 2020, the poll for the election to fill the vacancy on South Mimms Parish Council will now be held on the ordinary day of election in 2021; that is to say on 6 May 2021.

 Further information will be supplied closer to the time.

South Mimms Parish Council will be commencing a period of public consultation in April, to gather the villagers’ views on what the future shape and feel of South Mimms should be. Only AFTER this exercise will the Councilors be available to meet developers of any potential sites for new homes, to discuss matters.

Issued by the Parish Clerk 08/03/2020

South Mimms Parish Council, working with the charity Defibrillators in Public Places (DiPPs) has now installed a fully automated defibrillator in a cabinet outside The White Hart pub. The cabinet is locked with a pin code which can be obtained from the emergency services when dialing 999 for the victim. Training sessions (paid for by the Parish Council for residents) are going to be arranged for February and dates will go on our notice boards and in the Church newsletter.

South Mimms Parish Council has secured funding for two speed data points to be set up by Hertfordshire Highways. These will monitor speeding traffic, over a seven day period, at two of the main entry / exit points in the village. Once the data has been obtain and analysis has taken place, we hope that the evidence will mean further measures to reduce speeding can be introduced.

As many of you may know, South Mimms contains the remains of a Norman motte and bailey castle. Historic England’s listing on the castle states ” South Mimms motte and bailey castle is situated on an east-facing slope overlooking the Mimmshall Brook, about 1.25km north-west of South Mimms village. It includes a motte, c.9m in height and 35m in diameter at the base, in the north-west corner of a kidney-shaped bailey which measures 125m north-south by 110m east-west and is surrounded by a bank and ditch. The entrance to the inner bailey was on the south-west side where there is now a causeway across a ditch and a break in the rampart. There are traces of an outer bailey to the south. The castle is thought to have been built by Geoffrey de Mandeville in 1141 with a licence from Matilda and was probably destroyed in 1143. Excavations carried out by J Kent in 1961-5 revealed that a timbered tower had been built on the ground with an entrance on the south and that the motte had then been constructed around the tower with spoil from the defensive ditches. Pottery from the 13th and 14th centuries was uncovered during the excavation and suggests that occupation of the site continued after the destruction of the castle.”

Following a dig at the site some years ago, London & Middlesex Archaeological Society published a paper on the castle, which included a fantastic painting by the artist Faith Vardy, which is reproduced under copy -write with the Society’s kind permission.

We are delighted to announce that Natalie Gettings will be the new Parish Clerk at South Mimms with an immediate start.
Welcome Natalie!