# What stood on this ground?

The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.53202, 172.62188, 3 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 202m from this point, a M3.7 on 26 December 2010, 5 km deep, labelled "Within 5 km of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3454006)). 8 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 **Open Space Water and Margins** (OWM), 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 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 20.4km 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 air-noise contour covers this point The ground is zoned *Category 3, Lower Noise Level Area*, the central city’s graded night. 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 *30-metre setback strip* along a *Downstream Waterway (except Mona Vale)*. The drawn water: [water-margin](https://www.chch.live/water-margin).

The rebuild photographed this ground, **64** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2012, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 173 m away, an inlet shot, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/SWIN45740_45740a_20130716193748.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 **153 m** from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 2.0 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 **26 m** from this point, it reads “IN LOVING MEMORY OF NORMA RAE HAMILTON”, standing on Botanic Gardens, commissioned 2014. 188 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 8 named grounds. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).

The rules on this ground, no alcohol at set times, Hagley Park and Environs, 22:00–7:00; Hagley Park and Environs, 0:00–0:00; Hagley Park and Environs, 22:00–7:00; 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, *Ōtākaro (Avon River)* (Ngā Wai). 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 [Rehua Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/rehua), wharenui Te Whatu Manawa Māoritanga o Rehua, 1.8km 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 **Waipapa, Pilgrims Corner**, Little Hagley Park, Harper Avenue, 501m 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.

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).

This ground sits inside the plan’s landscape schedules, *significant* ground in the plan’s grading, *SF8.2 - Significant Feature*. What happens here answers to the view, the skyline, the cliffs, the shape of the place. The kept view: [landscape](https://www.chch.live/landscape).

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 4.2km 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 **Liquefaction Damage is Possible**, 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 5.3km away, a rock anchor 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 **131** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **122** veterans, 9 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Japanese maple** (*palmatum*), 17 m tall, 1.28 m through, a crown 16 m across, a veteran, 116m 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

### [Bandsmen's Memorial Rotunda and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/192)
70m from your point
22 unread leads

### [Hagley Park](https://www.chch.live/place/501)
232m from your point
27 unread leads

## On the register nearby

- [Bandsmen's Memorial Rotunda and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/192), 70m
- [Hagley Park](https://www.chch.live/place/501), 232m
- [Cuningham House and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/23), 245m · 7 Riccarton Avenue
## 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

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