# What stood on this ground?

The heritage register’s answer within 1000m of -43.56065, 172.66219, 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 [Opawa](https://www.chch.live/opawa) and in the [Heathcote ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/heathcote), Nathaniel Herz Jardine'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 206m from this point, a M3.3 on 10 September 2010, 5 km deep, labelled "Within 5 km of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3369808)). 14 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M6.2 on 22 February 2011, 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 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 23.2km 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).

This point sits inside a recorded dump, Hansen Park, tipped 1936–1955, which the record describes as domestic rubbish, leather, metal, rubber. The council’s own note: *compact silt and shingle fill average 1m thick, overlies landfill*. A recorded dump is where the ground was filled, not a finding about this address, the whole buried city is at [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).

The rebuild photographed this ground, **566** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 33 m away, an access shot from 2012-07-18, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/SWMH41192_41192 (2)_20120719 102640.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 **120 m** from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 2.7 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 **132 m** from this point, it reads “In loving memory of/ Dr. David E Hansen and Professor Dr. John M Hansen,/ father and son who dedicated their lives to helping others./ Jo Ann, Douglas, David Hansen”, standing on Hansen Park, commissioned 2026. 8 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 3 named grounds. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).

The rules on this ground, 2 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 Hepara Pai Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/te-hepara-pai), wharenui Te Whakaruruhau, 2.1km from this point (Te Hui Amorangi o Te Waipounamu, the Māori Anglican bishopric of the South Island). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Puāri Pā**, Victoria Square and north along the river, 4.0km 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).

The files say this ground was made or characterised, *Mixed Fill with Rubbish* (unvouched fill). A record is the file’s own word on what was laid, not a fresh survey, the whole layer: [fill](https://www.chch.live/fill).

The rockfall survey’s nearest pin sits 451m 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 976m 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 **25** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **20** veterans, 5 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Crack Willow** (*fragilis*), 14 m tall, 0.5 m through, a crown 10 m across, a veteran, 135m 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

### [Dwelling and Setting, Fifield](https://www.chch.live/place/286)
221m from your point
20 unread leads

### [Dwelling and Setting, Springbank](https://www.chch.live/place/198)
413m from your point
2 unread leads

## On the register nearby

- [Dwelling and Setting, Fifield](https://www.chch.live/place/286), 221m · 14 Hawford Road
- [Dwelling and Setting, Springbank](https://www.chch.live/place/198), 413m · 290 Riverlaw Terrace
- [Dwelling and Setting, Glenmore](https://www.chch.live/place/186), 645m · 6 Peartree Lane
- [9 Ford Road](https://www.chch.live/place/532), 649m · 9 Ford Road
- [Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme](https://www.chch.live/place/37), 759m · 22 Cholmondeley 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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