Re: "Margate, in Kent"

gavin wrote:
"JNugent" <not.telling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xLidnbrsCYW5-KLanZ2dnUVZ8uudnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx


It always has been.


Was.

That a temporary legal provision

Who can say what is temporary. It is the current situation.

"Greater Manchester" was temporary. It has gone. How temporary can a temporary thing be?

Bolton is now once more a county unto itself (the official status of unitary authorities, whether former metropolitan or shire districts). So it is back in the status it enjoyed prior to 1974 as a county borough. When Bolton was a county borough, Lancashire CC enjoyed no powers over it. But it was still addressed: "Bolton, Lancs", not "Bolton, Bolton".

Because "Greater Manchester" does not exist as a local government unit

Irrelevant.

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