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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/06/2012 14:38, Philip Barnes
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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.</span></p>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Colin<br>
[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog</a>
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