# What stood on this ground?

The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.60633, 172.64531, 2 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 [Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay) 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 332m from this point, a M3.6 on 22 February 2011, 6 km deep, labelled "5 km south of Christchurch" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3488140)). 18 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 **Transport** (T), the transport family. A zone is a permission, not a description, the whole district’s zoning is at [zones](https://www.chch.live/zones).

The plan’s heritage schedule protects this ground, the setting of **Sign of the Kiwi Grounds 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 22.0km 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 plaque register puts a dedication about **0 m** from this point, it reads “Sister City Garden / (dedication text partly illegible)”, standing on Coronation Hill Reserve, commissioned 2009. It is the only inscribed plaque within a short walk. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).

The rules on this ground, 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).

No named slope-hazard band covers this point, though it sits inside the broad "remaining slope instability" overlay blanketing the Peninsula hill country, the plan’s background watch. The whole watch: [slope](https://www.chch.live/slope).

No named scheduled area covers this point, though it sits inside a Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan silent-file precinct, the plan flags culturally sensitive ground here while deliberately withholding the specific sites. 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, 2.9km 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, 8.5km 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.

This ground sits inside the plan’s landscape schedules, *outstanding* ground, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, *ONL38.3 - Outstanding Natural Landscape*. 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 60m from this point, a rock still in place; 89 more pins within half a kilometre, 16 fallen, 22 wobble easy. 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 Unlikely**, Underlying geology is rock however uncertaininty remains about thickness and characteristics of overlying soil. 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 1.5km 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 nearest notable tree on the register is **Kowhai** (*microphylla*), 17 m tall, a crown 8 m across, a veteran, 1.6km 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

### [Sign of the Kiwi Grounds and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/459)
15m from your point
29 unread leads

### [Sign of the Kiwi and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/61)
22m from your point
30 unread leads

## On the register nearby

- [Sign of the Kiwi Grounds and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/459), 15m · 1700 Summit Road
- [Sign of the Kiwi and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/61), 22m · 1700 Summit Road
## 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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