On 22 Jun 2009, at 14:45, Chris Hill wrote: > I understand that > councils are responsible for the beach so the county could be said to > extend beyond what we currently mark as the coastline. Does anyone > know > where council boundaries actually end with respect to the sea and > coastline?
Entirely wild speculation, but logically I'd assume they ought to extend to the 12 mile boundary beyond the coastline which the UK claims as territorial waters... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-mile_limit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand - Matt _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
