Thread: Unformed legal road/ Paper Road access

Hey guys

Im having a bit of a dilemma at the moment with paper road access.
So there is a paper road through private property (which happens to be bee keeping land with free roaming stock), i was using to get onto the doc land here in south taranaki. I was informing the owner of access a day or two in advance out of courtesy and followed the rules he put in place like no loaded weapons through his property, no hunting on his property, etc. However after my last outing i was sent an email from said land owner saying something along the lines of not allowing access to his land anymore due to health and safety regulations. Now correct me if I'm wrong but, i didn't think you could block/ disallow access to paper roads as they are seen as unformed legal roads (coincidentally as they are named). I've done a bit of research into this and it would seem that it indeed is a paper road through the property as it is shown on topo maps, public access area maps, etc

My question is, does his claim of the health and safety regulations have any impact/ credibility over paper roads or can i stick it to the man? (not literally, but i know you guys were thinking it that way).

Thanks in advance for the help guys
~JellyBean