On 26/08/2018 21:36, Colin Smale wrote:
On 2018-08-26 21:17, David Woolley wrote:
It looks to me as though boundaries can be defined recursively, so
Hampshire, rather than its bounding ways, ought to to be the object
referenced in the bigger entities.
This wouldn't work in the case of civil parishes as components of
districts and UA's though. You cannot define a district as the union of
the parishes. There are unparished areas, detached parts and "lands
common" which complicate the model. However I believe every point in the
UK is within some district/UA, and every district is within a county,
giving 100% coverage at that level.
Every point is within a district, but not every district is within a
county - unless, that is, you consider a unitary authority to be
effectively two different entities that happen to have identical boundaries.
From a legal perspective, districts (or boroughs, cities and unitary
authorities) are the fundamental building blocks of British local
government. Parishes or communities, where they exist, are subdivisions
of districts. Counties or metropolitan authorities, where they exist,
are unions of districts. The district is the "principal authority"
defined in legislation, everything else is relative to it.
(As an aside, this is also one of the big drivers of nostalgia for the
pre-1974 "historic" counties. The Victorian system had the county as the
fundamental unit. So even where we still have counties, they are not the
same as they used to be).
Mark
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