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

[Shaun McDonald]

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