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

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I have heard a lesser but similar situation exists with the boundary for
Snowdonia national park in North Wales.  Due to the change in position of
the river and location of sandbanks, it means that there is now a small
patch of land belonging to Ceredigion in the national park, which means
Ceredigion council can take part in discussions about the running of the
park.  

Does a similar situation exist with Bristol where it should be represented
in the Welsh national assembly and it can vote in Welsh affairs?

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Smale [mailto:colin.smale at xs4all.nl] 
Sent: 13 June 2012 15:40
To: talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] OT: Is Bristol the UK's only cross-border city?

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