PRESS RELEASE
2 October 2009
For immediate release

National Strategy for Walking Access on the Right Track - RWNZ

Rural Women New Zealand is pleased that its concerns about home and farm security have been recognized in the draft National Strategy on Walking Access, released this week.

Rural Women New Zealand has been at the forefront of the walking access debate from the start.

Security, along with respect for the property rights of private landowners, are our key concerns.

“RWNZ supports the Walking Access Commission’s recommendation that people will need to obtain permission and negotiate with landowners or farm managers about appropriate access across private land, boundaries and unformed legal roads,” says RWNZ’s land use spokesperson, Liz Evans.

“The Commission has acknowledged that most rural people and landowners are willing to enter into a partnership with recreational users of the great outdoors, as long as there is negotiation in cases involving access to non-public land.”

As a stakeholder group Rural Women New Zealand will continue to work with the Commission to ensure that the interests of its members, and those of the wider rural community, are taken into account.

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