# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 2000m of -43.51354, 172.63035, 5 places on record, nearest first. 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 [Saint Albans](https://www.chch.live/saint-albans) and in the [Innes ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/innes), Pauline Cotter'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 1.7km 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, 56 within five, the biggest inside five kilometres a M4.7 on 26 December 2010, 5 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 **Open Space Community Parks** (OCP), the open space family. A zone is a permission, not a description, the whole district’s zoning is at [zones](https://www.chch.live/zones). The plan’s heritage schedule protects this ground, the setting of **Abberley Park**, graded significant. The setting travels with the item, the schedule is at [heritage](https://www.chch.live/heritage). The 2011 grading never reached this point, the categories ran over the flat residential land. The grades are at [technical-categories](https://www.chch.live/technical-categories). The nearest mapped fault trace sits 21.6km 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). The record drew water over this point once, 1986 Storm Report (July). Each patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding, the whole record is at [floods](https://www.chch.live/floods). 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 water-margin layers hold this point, inside a *7-metre setback strip* along a *Environmental Asset Waterway*. The drawn water: [water-margin](https://www.chch.live/water-margin). The rebuild photographed this ground, **537** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2009–2015, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 12 m away, an outfall, outlet shot from 2013-09-22, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/SWOUT4448_SWOUT4448B_20130923 094800.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 **shared path** about **39 m** from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 0.4 km of network. The books' record, not today’s cones, the whole network: [cycleways](https://www.chch.live/cycleways). The plaque register puts a dedication about **0 m** from this point, it reads “In Memory Of Roy Reed Accidentally killed on Trentham Racecourse March 17th 1936”, standing on Abberley Park, commissioned 2009. 3 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, the dog rules name this ground, Abberley Park (leashed/under effective control); Abberley Park (leashed/under effective control); 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 [Rehua Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/rehua), wharenui Te Whatu Manawa Māoritanga o Rehua, 390m from this point (the city's urban Māori community, under the korowai of mana whenua Ngāi Tūāhuriri). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Ōtautahi, Tautahi's kāinga**, the Avon Loop, near Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street, 1.6km away, the seasonal camp of Tautahi, the chief the city is named for and son of Huikai of Koukourārata, on the Avon Loop. The whole roll: [maraes](https://www.chch.live/maraes), a record of what the file says, not a claim on this point. This point sits inside a scheduled site of ecological significance, *Avon River and Tributaries*. The plan protects the remnant bush, wetland or outcrop on this ground, clearing it asks for consent. The whole ledger: [ecology](https://www.chch.live/ecology). 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 5.7km 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 **High Liquefaction Vulnerability**, River plain and channel deposits, observed performance variable and uncertainty in liquefaction performance due to effects of layered silty soil profiles, and the notes flag it for possible lateral spreading near a free face. 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 6.7km 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 **79** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **8** veterans, 77 carrying a protection, the nearest is **English Oak** (*robur*), 16 m tall, 0.86 m through, a crown 15 m across, carrying a district plan protection, on the file as planted in 2005, 14m away. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands, not a fresh survey. The canopy: [trees](https://www.chch.live/trees). ## What the record says ### [Abberley Park](https://www.chch.live/place/4) 20m from your point 20 unread leads ### [Dwelling and Setting, 41 Ranfurly Street](https://www.chch.live/place/189) 102m from your point 20 unread leads ## On the register nearby - [Abberley Park](https://www.chch.live/place/4), 20m - [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/189), 102m · 41 Ranfurly Street - [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/190), 103m · 45 Ranfurly Street - [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/306), 350m · 102D Springfield Road - [Te Whatu Manawa Maoritanga O Rehua and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/224), 359m · 79 Springfield Road ## 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=-43.51354&lon=172.63035&radius=2000 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.51354,172.63035,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.51354&lon=172.63035&radius=2000