[Talk-GB] OT: Is Bristol the UK's only cross-border city?

[Colin Smale]

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.

Colin
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog
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