Originally posted by MarkJerling If the paper road and the track don't follow the same route, you may well have some power to stop them should they ever try. Feel free to PM me and I can look into it for you in more detail if you want.
The problem is the paper road goes over a cliff, and so the track to the river was rerouted through the family property decades ago as a result of instability along the top of the cliff. Mum paid for a survey to confirm the boundaries of the property a few years ago when the contracting company applied for a consent to use the track to extract shingle from the riverbed, and the survey clearly showed the track goes through the property, but at the resource consent hearing, the judge said the survey was wrong (but gave no evidence why, and no one else presented any alternative survey), and I understand the contracting company sort of implied that some native trees might end up horizontal if there was any objection to their heavy traffic, although fortunately they've never used their consent, and hopefully it will expire.
There's other access to the river a couple of kilometres down stream, that wouldn't interfere with anyone, so I don't know why they don't use that.
I spent a lot of time roaming around there with a camera. My first ever photos were taken there with a toy camera with a plastic lens, and turned out to be the last photos of my grandmother alive before she was killed by a drunk driver.
Later, I used to roam the riverbed with my first Pentax mount camera that I was given for my 15th birthday.
It's a bit disturbing to look at my photographic record of how in a few decades, what was a braided, shingle riverbed with lots of nesting birds, has reduced to just about a single channel, with the riverbed overgrown with broom and willows.