A wide range of publications about the outdoors
Foreshore & Seabed
Government's proposal is not about creating a
'public domain'. It is about handing over "...control, power,
authority" (mana) to iwi and
hapu (30 April 2010)
RANZ
submission
DOC
A
duty to foster commercial recreation?
(7 April 2010)
High Country
Tenure Review
A review of existing access provisions and future options.
Paper
presented to
Symposium on Recreation Values and Natural Areas,
University of Otago, 19 March 2010
YouTube
10
mins
Walking Access
Creating pedestrian roads
Advice to
Walking Access Commission
Achieving certain access
An assessment of roads, reserves and easements in achieving the purpose
of the Walking Access Act (15/2/10)
YouTube
20
min
Unformed roads can be
created for walking access. Bushey Park videos refute the basis for
the Walking Access Commission's privatisation of public access
(25/12/09).
Bushey Park Overview
YouTube
10
min
Bushey Park Saga
Documentary
60 min
Hayes, B.E. October 2007.
Roading Law As It
Applies To Unformed Roads–The Sequel
pdf 164k
Mason,
B.J. July 2007*
Critique
of 'Roading Law As It Applies To Unformed Roads'
pdf 108k
Hayes, B.E. March 2007
Roading
Law As It Applies To Unformed Roads
pdf 316k
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An Act of Repression:
Walking Access Bill introduced
Government must critically re-examine flawed advice *(18/7/07)
Walking Access - a step forward - with a STING in the tail (5/4/07)
Government should sack land access group (18/2/07)
Recreation
Opportunities
Where to go
for outdoor recreation (23/12/09)
Dept of Conservation
Natural quiet and protected areas (in prep)
Recreation to be fostered; conditional on protection (in prep)
Protection now secondary to 4WD "imperative" (in prep)
Off-Road
vehicles
Dob in
the hoons:
Off-road vehicle gallery
(23.11.07)
Off-road vehicles destroying the evironment (10/8/07)
Tenure review
Is tenure review process
transparent or corrupt?
(21/2/07)
What has
been described as "the
defining document on public access in New Zealand"
Land access reports released August 2003
Summary of Submissions to the Ministerial Reference Group on Land Access pdf 52k
Walking Access in the
New Zealand Outdoors
A report by the Land Access Ministerial
Reference Group pdf 576k
The Law on Public
Access Along Water Margins
By B E Hayes pdf 988k
Land Access
Public Access
Strategy 2003
Reference Group Report - Commentary and checklist of pros and cons
Has Jim Sutton Hijacked Labour's Outdoor Policy?
Abolition of Queen's Chain should not become Government's agenda
Queen
Victoria's legacy
What is meant by "Queen's Chain" and related terminology
Departmental
hostility to public needs
may be put to the test
Does DoC have liability for recreational visitors' mishaps?
Public land
ownership
The origins of public
lands in New Zealand. Why is public ownership necessary?
Public access in
general
Allenmansrätt, Walkways, law, order and the great outdoors
Covenants (over private land)
Queen's Chain
Only two leases over
marginal strips -- so why was it neccesary to change the law?
Sea coast
NZ Coastal Policy & Plans
Public roads
A guide to road
dedication
Public
conservation estate
'DOC estate' out --
'public land' in...
Crown Forests
Rights of public use are retained despite licences to forestry
companies...
South Island
high country
Grazing and burning the high country to 'save it' from fire...
Treaty
of Waitangi & Maori claims
Claims for sovereignty lack credibility...
Legislation
Crown Pastoral Land &
Queen's Chain Protection Bills
Local issues
By local authority areas
Political
policy
Overseas
UK, Sweden
A guide to writing 'Letters to the Editor'
PDF Library
A wide range of publications about the outdoors