It hasn’t mattered much until now. A couple who live in a house in Tier 2 cannot meet friends in their garden because it is in Tier 3.
A culvert running underneath Sheila and Philip Herbert’s land in Otley, West Yorkshire, is the boundary between West and North Yorkshire. Most houses in Otley, a market town, are in Leeds city council’s remit and under Tier 3 restrictions.
Most properties on the street the Herberts live in fall under Harrogate, which is in Tier 2.
It means that they are under Tier 2 rules in their conservatory but are in Tier 3 if they step out on to the lawn.
People in Tier 2 can meet in groups of six outdoors, including in private gardens,
