# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.52953, 172.63883, 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 342m 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)). 6 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 **City centre zone** (CCZ), the mixed use family. A zone is a permission, not a description, the whole district’s zoning is at [zones](https://www.chch.live/zones). 3 qualifying matters touch this ground: **New Regent Street Height**, **Heritage Item**, **Heritage Setting**. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid. The register is at [matters](https://www.chch.live/matters). The plan’s heritage schedule protects this ground, the setting of **New Regent Street Shops and Setting**, graded highly significant and on the national register as Category 1. 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 21.8km 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 *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 2, Lower Noise Level Entertainment and Hospitality Precincts*, 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, **1464** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 10 m away from 2016-09-01, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Site_Photos/10936_8_20160902 080911.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 **82 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 **99 m** from this point, it reads “IN MEMORY OF / JAIME ROBERT MCDOWELL GILBERT / WHO LOST HIS LIFE / AT THIS LOCATION IN THE EARTHQUAKE / ON 22 FEBRUARY 2011, AGED 22 YEARS / FOREVER OUR SHINING STAR”, commissioned 2018. 55 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 10 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). ## 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, 1.0km 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, 180m 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 3.8km 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 **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 4.8km 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 **151** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **49** veterans, 121 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Narrow-leaved Lacebark** (*angustifolia*), 2 m tall, a crown 1 m across, carrying a resource consent protection, on private land, 101m 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 ### [New Regent Street Shops and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/164) 19m from your point 40 unread leads ### [Theatre Royal Façade, Dome, Staircase and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/87) 56m from your point 21 unread leads ## On the register nearby - [New Regent Street Shops and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/164), 19m · 17 New Regent Street - [Theatre Royal Façade, Dome, Staircase and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/87), 56m · 145 Gloucester Street - [Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A W Smith and Son's Central Garage/Mayfair-Cinerama Theatre](https://www.chch.live/place/277), 148m · 115A Worcester Street - [Former MED Converter Station and Substation](https://www.chch.live/place/506), 162m · 102/210 Armagh Street - [Edmonds Band Rotunda Area including Rotunda, Shelter, Balustrades, Landing and Lamp Standards and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/21), 182m · 230 Cambridge Terrace ## 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=-43.5295277&lon=172.6388298&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.5295277,172.6388298,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.5295277&lon=172.6388298&radius=250