# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 1000m of -43.60392, 172.72238, 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 [Lyttelton](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton) and in the [Banks Peninsula ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/banks-peninsula), Tyrone Fields'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 478m from this point, a M3.2 on 6 February 2012, 10 km deep, labelled "10 km south-east of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2012p096586)). 12 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 **Commercial Banks Peninsula** (CBP), the commercial 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: **Lyttelton Port Influence Area**, **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 **Former British Hotel and Setting**, 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 28.2km 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). 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). The rebuild photographed this ground, **867** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2017, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 13 m away, an access shot from 2011-08-25, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/GHDWWSSMH3693520110825 173618.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 plaque register puts a dedication about **89 m** from this point, it reads “Presented to the people of Lyttelton and the Canterbury Province by the Canterbury Pilgrims and Early Settlers Association to Commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the departure of the Early Settlers from England to Lyttelton on Saturday, 7th September, 1850. Thursday, 7th September, 2000”, standing on Sumner Road Gardens, commissioned 2008. 14 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 6 named grounds. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, inside the takiwā of Rapaki 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, *Ōhinehou* (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 [Rāpaki Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/rapaki), wharenui Wheke, 3.4km from this point (Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke, papatipu rūnanga of Ngāi Tahu). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Puāri Pā**, Victoria Square and north along the river, 10.7km 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 graded landscape schedule covers this point, though it sits inside the coastal environment, the plan’s coastal rules reach this far. 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 354m from this point, a rock that came down in the shakes; 10 more pins within half a kilometre, 6 fallen. A pin is where the survey saw the rock, not a promise about the slope, the survey: [boulders](https://www.chch.live/boulders). ## The armour The register puts **34** engineered rockfall defences within half a kilometre of this point, 31 rock anchors, 2 catch fences, 1 mesh drape, 2 rated poor or worse on the file. 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 **3** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **2** veterans, 1 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Golden Upright Cypress** (*sempervirens*), 6 m tall, a crown 1 m across, a veteran, on the file as planted in 1985, 246m 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 ### [Former British Hotel and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/353) 8m from your point 41 unread leads ### [2 Norwich Quay](https://www.chch.live/place/484) 18m from your point 22 unread leads ## On the register nearby - [Former British Hotel and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/353), 8m · 10 Oxford Street - [2 Norwich Quay](https://www.chch.live/place/484), 18m · 2 Norwich Quay - [Former Harbour Board Office and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/336), 28m · 5 Norwich Quay - [Pilgrims Landing Site and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/337), 37m · 7 Norwich Quay - [Commercial Building and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/354), 40m · 13 Oxford 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=-43.6039196&lon=172.72238&radius=1000 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.6039196,172.72238,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.6039196&lon=172.72238&radius=1000