[Talk-GB] Flatholm Island Boundary Problem

Colin Smale colin.smale at xs4all.nl
Sat Sep 12 22:04:05 UTC 2020


On 2020-09-12 23:53, Russ Garrett wrote:

> Yeah, I assume what happened is that the City of Bristol ended up, at
> some point, as a statutory port authority (which I think they were
> until 1991), and somehow the boundary from that has remained as their
> local authority boundary. But it's still a fairly unique situation as
> there are many other harbours with statutory port authorities where
> this anomaly doesn't exist.
> 
> I'm fairly sure that Bristol boundary does not coincide with the
> current limits of the Port of Bristol. Aberdeen has a small seaward
> extension which also doesn't appear to coincide with their current
> port authority limits either. So it's not clear what these seaward
> extensions currently achieve.
> 
> I'd love to find the actual legislation which created this...

There are seaward extensions not linked to a port as well. I wonder what
the background is to Torbay (Devon) for example.
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