On Wed, June 13, 2012 3:40 pm, Colin Smale wrote: > On 13/06/2012 14:38, Philip Barnes wrote: >> >> The built up area of Chester straddles the England-Wales border and >> the football ground is right on the border. The pitch being in Wales >> and some of the car park and offices in England. >> >> > I think this is a little curious, but it doesn't seem to imply any > administrative ambiguity as there is in the Severn Estuary. May be a bit > hard to swallow for Chester FC that their home ground is in Wales though. > > There are probably loads of buildings in the UK which straddle a border. > I wonder how that is handled for council tax, planning etc. In > Baarle-Hertog (BE)/Baarle-Nassau (NL) (see [1]) this happens a lot; for > administrative expedience the "nationality" of a house is determined in > practice by the country in which the front door is located. But there > are also cases where the border goes through the front door. When the > borders were re-surveyed a few years ago one house had suddenly switched > countries. The problem was resolved by moving the front door by a couple > of metres.
I heard of someone who lived on the boundary between Bromley and Southwark, a third of the council tax went to one council and 2 thirds to the other one. Eventually they moved the boundary such that they were completely in one council area. Shaun _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
