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Just where does the council's control end?
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The local council seem to have control over pretty much everything that goes on within its boundaries - parking, health and safety, building regulations, etc.
But I've often wondered just where that control stops, in terms of vertical space.
If you dug a deep hole, where is the cut-off point beyond which the council have no influence over your activities? Surely it cannot extend in a very long, ever-narrowing wedge all the way to the centre of the earth?
Similarly, if you wanted to somehow keep an airborne object floating in the air above your house, would there be a maximum height beyond which the council would not be able to order you to remove it?
I realise, of course, that such a device would be subject to the laws controlling the skies and aviation over the country as a whole - but does each country's aviation laws extend infinitely into the space above, to the very edge of the universe?
I know this sounds like a silly pair of questions - but somebody must have thought of these points before, and made laws to cover the possibility of people setting up their own independent territories way below or above the ground where most normal people live their lives.
But I've often wondered just where that control stops, in terms of vertical space.
If you dug a deep hole, where is the cut-off point beyond which the council have no influence over your activities? Surely it cannot extend in a very long, ever-narrowing wedge all the way to the centre of the earth?
Similarly, if you wanted to somehow keep an airborne object floating in the air above your house, would there be a maximum height beyond which the council would not be able to order you to remove it?
I realise, of course, that such a device would be subject to the laws controlling the skies and aviation over the country as a whole - but does each country's aviation laws extend infinitely into the space above, to the very edge of the universe?
I know this sounds like a silly pair of questions - but somebody must have thought of these points before, and made laws to cover the possibility of people setting up their own independent territories way below or above the ground where most normal people live their lives.
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No matter how deep you dug your hole you would always have problems as the surface of the hole would always be in the same place.
Similarly, any object you had floating in the sky would always be tethered.
It wouldn't just be your local council who would be up in arms....you'd have a queue of officials a mile long wanting a chat....with Elf n Safety at the head of the line!
Similarly, any object you had floating in the sky would always be tethered.
It wouldn't just be your local council who would be up in arms....you'd have a queue of officials a mile long wanting a chat....with Elf n Safety at the head of the line!
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