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Postal counties to be dropped from the Postcode Address File
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, at 02:49:26 on Sun, 1 Aug 2010, MIG remarked: I was particularly pleased to see the 'Romford is/is not in Essex' argument being brought up immediately in the comments. Having been brought up in the vicinity, I'd say that all of those were in Essex, as is [ObLRT:] Upminster and Epping. This change will finally sort out a couple of villages in the south Chilterns which are physically in Bucks, but with a Henley (Oxon) address, and a Reading (Berks) Postcode! "Physically"? As in... the county boundary on the map. All these boundaries are administrative for one purpose or another. (Although for some reason people seem to think that past administrative boundaries are "real" and current ones are not.) I'm not aware that the Bucks/Oxon border has changed very recently, in that vicinity (other bits of Oxon border have changed in my lifetime). The objections to the proposed change seem to come from people who haven't cottoned on that their postal address is not meant to be a description of where they live, "Where you live" does have an effect on services provided by the relevant councils, and hence on one's lifestyle. Planning and Education, for example, can vary quite dramatically across a country border. but is a structured entry in a record of delivery points. It can have whatever fields in it the owner of the record wants to store. Addresses, however, come with lots of baggage. I once lived in a village several miles inside south Cambridgeshire. But the postcode was associated with Royston "Herts". As a result many providers of services would insist it was their (eg) Stevenage branch which I should be talking to, not the one much nearer (demographically as well as physically) in Cambridge. The worst was online estate agents, who in effect created a no-mans land of houses that would not show up in a search when people expected results from the southern fringe of Cambridge, but were also way outside the area that anyone looking for a house in Stevenage would be interested in. -- Roland Perry |
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