Kia ora Steve,

 

I'd like to acknowledge receipt of your official information request for
documents that describe whether the public is allowed or not allowed to
access the Stratford–Okahukura Line.

 

We received your request on 23 March 2024 and will endeavour to respond to
your request as soon as possible and in any event no later than 23 April
2024 i.e. the 20 working days after the day your request was received.

 

If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will notify you of
an extension of that timeframe.

 

Thanks,

Shauni James  |  Communications Adviser

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Kia ora Steve,

 

Please find the below information and attached documents in response to
your official information request for any documents that describe whether
the public is allowed or not allowed to access the Stratford–Okahukura
Line - specifically whether the public could walk the line now that it is
used for tourism and what conditions that would entail – which we received
on 23 March 2024.

 

Although the Stratford–Okahukura Line has been mothballed, the rights to
use and occupy the land in question has been granted to a lessee under a
commercial lease for “rail based tourism, agricultural and tourism related
activities”. It follows that access to the leased land by members of the
public will need to be subject to the conditions imposed by the lessee,
pursuant to their occupation rights under the lease. 

 

The two documents we have provided (attached) are the lease document and
an assignment document evidencing this existing lease with the current
occupiers of the land in question.

 

This release is under the OIA, and as such you have the right to seek an
investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information
about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz
or freephone 0800 802 602.

 

Thanks,

Shauni James  |  Communications Adviser

MOB: +64 27 230 7426

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