# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.48942, 172.60891, nothing scheduled in the register here. A register listing is a lead to follow, not by itself a claim. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary. The point falls inside [Northcote](https://www.chch.live/northcote) and in the [Papanui ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/papanui), Victoria Henstock's seat, measured against the drawn boundaries, not the side its address is described as. The whole roll is at [/wards](https://www.chch.live/wards). The nearest break GeoNet recorded sits 1.5km from this point, a M3.2 on 30 August 2025, 9 km deep, labelled "Within 5 km of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2025p652534)). none within a kilometre, 14 within five, the biggest inside five kilometres a M3.8 on 29 May 2016, 9 km deep. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not where the shaking was felt; the whole catalogue is at [sequence](https://www.chch.live/sequence) and the story in plain language is [the earthquakes explainer](https://www.chch.live/how-nz-works/canterbury-earthquakes). The Crown’s 2011 classification left this point outside the residential red zone. The whole boundary is at [redzone](https://www.chch.live/redzone). The district plan files this ground as **High density residential zone** (HRZ), the residential family. A zone is a permission, not a description, the whole district’s zoning is at [zones](https://www.chch.live/zones). The 2011 grading filed this point **TC2**, technical category 2, yellow. A category is the verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about this address, the grades are at [technical-categories](https://www.chch.live/technical-categories). The nearest mapped fault trace sits 21.0km from this point, part of the Greendale Fault. A drawn trace is the record of where the ground broke or deformed, not a prediction for this address, the mapped faults are at [faults](https://www.chch.live/faults). No recorded dump under this point, the council’s landfill layer keeps the old tips on the books and this isn’t one. The ones that are, from 1880 on: [landfills](https://www.chch.live/landfills). No recorded flood patch reaches this point, the layer keeps the water it saw and never drew it here. The ground it did draw: [floods](https://www.chch.live/floods). No high-hazard flood area covers this point It sits inside the *Lower Styx River* flood-management area, the catchment’s own watch. The waiting water: [flood-hazard](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard). No air-noise contour covers this point The airport’s bird-strike buffer, 8 km from the path, reaches this far. The quiet lines: [noise](https://www.chch.live/noise). The plan’s density map holds this point, inside the *Residential Suburban Density Transition Overlay*. The allowed shape: [density](https://www.chch.live/density). The rebuild photographed this ground, **133** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2015, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 20 m away from 2015-02-18, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Site_Photos/10994_6_20150219 082926.jpg). A work log filed as the dig went on, not a survey of what stands today. The whole record: [rebuild](https://www.chch.live/rebuild). The cycleway layer files a **separated cycleway** about **19 m** from this point, it belongs to [Papanui Parallel](https://www.chch.live/cycleway/papanui-parallel), one of the named Major Cycle Routes. Within a short walk the layer files 2.2 km of network, 0.6 km of it separated from the traffic. The books' record, not today’s cones, the whole network: [cycleways](https://www.chch.live/cycleways). The plaque register puts a dedication about **253 m** from this point, it reads “Graham Condon / 1949 – 2007 / QSM / JP / Paralympian / Christchurch City Councillor / 1966, 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988 Paralympics / 1970, 1974 and 1990 Commonwealth Games / 1975, 1977 and 1982 FESPIC Games / 1970 and 1983 International Stoke Mandeville Games / 1986 Oita Marathon”, standing on Graham Condon. 2 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, no alcohol at set times, Papanui, 18:00–6:00; Papanui, 18:00–6:00; 5 bottle-store buffers hold around this point; inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this is the register’s drawing of it, thinned to ~4 m. The whole rulebook: [rules](https://www.chch.live/rules). ## The marae and the old grounds The nearest marae on the roll is [Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi](https://www.chch.live/marae/te-ora-hou), wharenui Te Iho o te Ora, 1.3km from this point (Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi, a kaupapa Māori youth and whānau organisation). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Waipapa, Pilgrims Corner**, Little Hagley Park, Harper Avenue, 4.3km away, the Māori reserve gazetted in 1858 at Little Hagley Park, the resting place on the old trail; in the 1970s its claim was settled in exchange for the Pages Road land that became Ngā Hau e Whā. The whole roll: [maraes](https://www.chch.live/maraes), a record of what the file says, not a claim on this point. No hazardous-activities listing reaches this point, the register keeps the parcels where contaminating work ran, and this isn’t one. The ones that are: [hazards](https://www.chch.live/hazards). No fill parcel reaches this point, the files keep the ground that was made, and this isn’t filed as made. The parcels that are: [fill](https://www.chch.live/fill). The rockfall survey’s nearest pin sits 8.8km from this point, a rock that came down in the shakes. A pin is where the survey saw the rock, not a promise about the slope, the survey: [boulders](https://www.chch.live/boulders). ## What the model says The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as **Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability**, River plain and channel deposits, observed performance variable and uncertainty in liquefaction performance due to effects of layered silty soil profiles. A district-scale screening read, not a finding about an address, the study itself says site-specific analysis confirms a parcel. The whole study: [vulnerability](https://www.chch.live/vulnerability). ## The armour The nearest engineered defence sits 9.8km away, a rock cable installed 2011. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the file’s condition rating is its own word, not a fresh inspection. The register: [defences](https://www.chch.live/defences). ## The canopy The register counts **38** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **12** veterans, 26 carrying a protection, the nearest is **English Oak** (*robur*), 20 m tall, 0.92 m through, a crown 16 m across, a veteran, on the file as planted in 2006, 88m away. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands, not a fresh survey. The canopy: [trees](https://www.chch.live/trees). No scheduled place sits within 250m of this point. Widened to 2 km, the nearest on record is [Former Papanui Railway Station and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/191), 684m away, 1 Restell Street. That is a statement about the register, not the ground, unscheduled does not mean unstoried, only that no listing has been made for it. ## How this answer is made The register this asks is the district-plan heritage schedule and the Heritage New Zealand list, scheduled places, not everything that stood here. If the record has this ground wrong, the corrections door is open: https://www.chch.live/corrections --- HTML: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.489422007619986&lon=172.6089091977488&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.489422007619986,172.6089091977488,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.489422007619986&lon=172.6089091977488&radius=250