In reply to james.slater:
It's reasonably common for the road to be shut on paper yeah, when I went last September this was the case for all but one week- I just got lucky! However locals said it tended to be open a fair few days anyway and the few days it was shut when I was there it opened in the afternoon.
Worth rememberig that mowing word has no firing restrictions and the bird restrictions have been lifted, so get stuck in!