feat(places): name every authority a place sits in

SW19 is mostly Merton but partly Wandsworth, and the page said only Merton.
The cause was one field doing two jobs: _parent_authority takes the modal
authority, which is right for a 301 target and wrong as a statement about
where a place is.

This is not a corner case. A quarter of viable outcodes (425 of 1,760) and a
third of viable towns (263 of 783) cross an authority boundary — Bedford the
town spans Bedford and Central Bedfordshire.

Place now carries `authorities`, every authority holding at least a tenth of
the schools and at least two of them, largest first. parent_authority stays
single and unchanged, because a redirect still needs one target.

The share threshold exists because GIAS carries postcode errors: EN6 lists two
Shropshire schools among fourteen in Hertfordshire, and a bare "any authority
present" rule would print those as though they were real. A place too small or
too fragmented to clear the threshold still names its largest, so the page
never goes silent about where it is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
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@@ -106,6 +106,13 @@ function SchoolTable({ schools, phase }: { schools: School[]; phase: PhaseKey })
export function PlaceView({ detail, phase, englandAverage, neighbours }: Props) {
const { place, schools, averages } = detail;
// Fall back to the single parent when the API predates the authorities
// field, so a stale cache never blanks the line entirely.
const authorities = place.authorities?.length
? place.authorities
: place.parent_authority
? [{ name: place.parent_authority, slug: authoritySlug(place.parent_authority), count: 0 }]
: [];
const local = averages[METRICS[phase ?? 'primary'].key];
const phaseWord = phase === 'secondary' ? 'Secondary schools'
: phase === 'primary' ? 'Primary schools' : 'Schools';
@@ -163,13 +170,20 @@ export function PlaceView({ detail, phase, englandAverage, neighbours }: Props)
<h1>{phaseWord} in {place.name}</h1>
<p className={styles.summary}>
{place.count} schools
{place.parent_authority && (
{authorities.length > 0 && (
<>
{' · '}
<Link href={`/schools/authority/${authoritySlug(place.parent_authority)}`}
className={styles.inlineLink}>
{place.parent_authority}
</Link>
{/* Every authority, not just the largest. A quarter of outcodes
and a third of towns cross a boundary: SW19 is mostly Merton
but partly Wandsworth, and naming one asserts otherwise. */}
{authorities.map((a, i) => (
<span key={a.slug}>
{i > 0 && (i === authorities.length - 1 ? ' and ' : ', ')}
<Link href={`/schools/authority/${a.slug}`} className={styles.inlineLink}>
{a.name}
</Link>
</span>
))}
</>
)}
</p>