# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.52827, 172.63649, 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 [Christchurch Central](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city) and in the [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central), Jake McLellan'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 532m from this point, a M3.8 on 25 September 2010, 5 km deep, labelled "Within 5 km of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3378127)). 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, 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 **Avon River Precinct (Te Papa Otakaro)** (ARP), 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). A qualifying matter touches this ground, **Heritage Setting**, filed under heritage. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid. The register is at [matters](https://www.chch.live/matters). 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 21.7km 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, 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce. Each patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding, the whole record is at [floods](https://www.chch.live/floods). No high-hazard flood area covers this point It sits inside the *Avon 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 ground is zoned *Category 3, Lower Noise Level Area*, the central city’s graded night. The quiet lines: [noise](https://www.chch.live/noise). The central-city walking catchment reaches this far, the ten-minute city the plan draws. The allowed shape: [density](https://www.chch.live/density). The rebuild photographed this ground, **1471** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 13 m away, an access shot from 2011-12-20, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/CivilSolutionNZWWAccessSSMH1339620111221 094243.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 **8 m** from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 9.1 km of network, 0.2 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 **0 m** from this point, it reads “THE MARKET HALL STOOD ON / THIS SITE FROM 1862 TO 1874 / IN THE LATTER YEARS OF THAT PERIOD / IT ALSO SERVED AS THE MAIN / CHRISTCHURCH POST OFFICE / THIS PLAQUE WAS GIFTED TO THE CITY BY / DESCENDANTS OF WILLIAM AND SARAH CHISNALL”, standing on Victoria Square, commissioned 2018. 63 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 13 named grounds. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, no alcohol here (Central City, Central City), in force around the clock; the dog rules name this ground, Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed); freedom camping is managed here, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area; 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). This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, *Puāri Pā* (Ngā Tūranga Tūpuna); *Market Square* (Ngā Tūranga Tūpuna). The plan formally recognises this ground in the mana whenua cultural landscape, earthworks and works on the water carry extra care here. The whole schedule: [cultural](https://www.chch.live/cultural). ## The marae and the old grounds The nearest marae on the roll is [Te Puna Wānaka](https://www.chch.live/marae/te-puna-wanaka), wharenui Te Mātauranga Māori, 1.2km from this point (Ara Institute of Canterbury, whose tertiary whare stands on the city campus). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Puāri Pā**, Victoria Square and north along the river, 147m away, the Waitaha settlement on the Ōtākaro bank, the oldest village the city centre covers, and later the market where Ngāi Tūāhuriri sold produce. 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 4.0km 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 5.0km 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 **141** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **48** veterans, 111 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Tulip tree** (*tulipifera*), 18 m tall, 1.45 m through, a crown 19 m across, a veteran, 82m 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 ### [Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/238) 33m from your point > In July 1900 a memorial committee chaired by H. F. Wigram met in the city council chambers to decide how Canterbury’s fiftieth jubilee should be marked, weighing proposals that included completing the north transept of ChristChurch Cathedral and a jubilee home for incurable and chronic cases, before resolving to ballot members on the twenty-four schemes put forward. >, *THE JUBILEE MEMORIAL (Star, 24 July 1900)* 9 sourced claims · a written piece · 20 unread leads ### [K2 Telephone Box and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/243) 4m from your point 21 unread leads ## On the register nearby - [K2 Telephone Box and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/243), 4m - [Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/238), 33m · 9 sourced claims - [Bowker Fountain and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/242), 37m - [Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross](https://www.chch.live/place/45), 68m · 201/779 Colombo Street - [Captain James Cook Statue and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/239), 78m · 89 Armagh Street ## 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=-43.52827&lon=172.63649&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.52827,172.63649,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.52827&lon=172.63649&radius=250