Post by Brent George on Dec 20, 2023 19:12:28 GMT
'They're there to stay': Landowner puts boulders across popular beach road
Stuff - Hawkes Bay: 21-Dec-2023
Boulders that have appeared on a popular road at Waimārama beach in Hawke’s Bay are there to stay, says the man who put them there.
Eru Smith put the boulders across the Domain Reserve Rd this week.
The sealed road crosses privately-owned land that has been in Smith’s family for generations.
“We own that land. Legally we can do what we’ve done. I’ve been fighting for 30 years to try and get the council to back-pay us for the use of our land and to then lease that bit of road off us. The road was put in illegally. I don’t know when they put the road there, but it was well before the 60s. And it wasn’t done with the owners' consent,” Smith said.
[While not completing a full investigation - the landowners have a point.
ML 1025 (1911) - reproduced in 1965 - depicts a Road Reserve corridor along the coastal frontage. ML 1557 (1927) defines Sec1B, and also depicts the coastal Road Reserve. Adjoining survey definitions (DP 11046 - 1964 to the south, and DP 20991 - 1988 to the north) also show Road Reserve parcels.
The kicker is that the current road formation is certainly within the Sec1B land - probably being so placed due to coastal erosion.
It is interesting - and may be coincidental - that the Lot 9 DP 20991 1.6ha parcel to the north is owned by the Hawkes Bay County Council, and has a ~20m wide "local purpose (recreation) reserve" (Lot 12) over which the formed road tracks....]
Stuff - Hawkes Bay: 21-Dec-2023
Boulders that have appeared on a popular road at Waimārama beach in Hawke’s Bay are there to stay, says the man who put them there.
Eru Smith put the boulders across the Domain Reserve Rd this week.
The sealed road crosses privately-owned land that has been in Smith’s family for generations.
“We own that land. Legally we can do what we’ve done. I’ve been fighting for 30 years to try and get the council to back-pay us for the use of our land and to then lease that bit of road off us. The road was put in illegally. I don’t know when they put the road there, but it was well before the 60s. And it wasn’t done with the owners' consent,” Smith said.
[While not completing a full investigation - the landowners have a point.
ML 1025 (1911) - reproduced in 1965 - depicts a Road Reserve corridor along the coastal frontage. ML 1557 (1927) defines Sec1B, and also depicts the coastal Road Reserve. Adjoining survey definitions (DP 11046 - 1964 to the south, and DP 20991 - 1988 to the north) also show Road Reserve parcels.
The kicker is that the current road formation is certainly within the Sec1B land - probably being so placed due to coastal erosion.
It is interesting - and may be coincidental - that the Lot 9 DP 20991 1.6ha parcel to the north is owned by the Hawkes Bay County Council, and has a ~20m wide "local purpose (recreation) reserve" (Lot 12) over which the formed road tracks....]