The Whangarei District Council is sitting on the fence while two Onerahi neighbours wage a minor war over a rock wall cutting an informal access road in half.
The blockage is on road reserve parallel to Church St and used as a right of way to houses set back from the road front. In the past, it could be driven the full length, giving residents two entry and exit points.
Now a low rock wall cuts it in half, but does not block access to any properties. Two neighbours are at loggerheads since one of them built the wall from their boundary across two-thirds of the driveway's width, blocking it from through traffic other than pedestrians or cycles.
Next-door neighbours Geert and Sue Ten Boom say it reduces off-street parking formerly available and prevents them driving their boat the easier route out on to the road.
Mr Ten Boom described the obstacle as "rocks and boulders chucked in the middle of a paper road, creating a hazard". He also said it was a safety hazard, less than a metre from a water hydrant.
