Thread: Could be bad news

I understand both sides of the argument. But a road is a road is a road. Some are formed, some are unformed. Those roads were surveyed in somewhere between 1880 and 1910. All subsequent land Titles will have had those roads shown as cadastral information on the deposited survey plan. Consecutive owners will have built their dwellings alongside those public roads, either in full knowledge that there is a surveyed road there, or in ignorance. Either way if dickheads walking along an unformed legal road past your home are an issue, its the exact same issue as dickheads walking along a formed legal road past your home. They break the law? call the cops.

As much as people may believe access is a privilege in this instance, its not. Along a formed or unformed legal road It is a right. Plain and simple.

Veer off the unformed legal road, and you are trespassing. plain and simple. Trespassers on your land? Call the cops.

In legal circumstances such as this, where are people happy for their line to be drawn? Unhappy with the law, so have changes made to suit yourself? Or act within the law and accept that the Police are hopeless/under resourced/not interested/whatever.

Anything less than the status quo, or a realignment of the ULR is a cop out, and one small step to losing your right of access to Public land.

Over the last couple of years it would appear that there's plenty quite happy to lose their rights...