# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 1000m of -43.68661, 172.89860, nothing scheduled in the register here. 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 [Pigeon Bay](https://www.chch.live/pigeon-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 533m from this point, a M3.1 on 15 June 2011, 5 km deep, labelled "15 km north-west of Akaroa" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3530069)). 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre sits within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M4.6 on 15 June 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 43.9km 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 “THIS STONE AND TIME CAPSULE / CELEBRATES THE LIFE OF / THE PIGEON BAY SCHOOL / 1852 — FEB. 2006 / THE TIME CAPSULE IS TO / BE OPENED IN THE YEAR 2106”, standing on Pigeon Bay Hall, commissioned 2018. 6 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, inside the takiwā of Te Runanga o Koukourarata. 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). ## The marae and the old grounds The nearest marae on the roll is [Koukourārata Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/koukourarata), wharenui Tūtehuarewa, 6.5km from this point (Te Rūnanga o Koukourārata and the hapū Ngāi Tūhaitara, Ngāti Huikai and Ngāi Tūtehuarewa of Ngāi Tahu). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Ōnawe Pā**, the Ōnawe peninsula, Akaroa Harbour, 12.4km away, a wāhi tapu headland, the Ngāi Tahu fortress on the Akaroa Harbour peninsula where the defenders made their last stand against Te Rauparaha in 1832. 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, *significant* ground in the plan’s grading, *NCCE1.0 - Natural Character in the Coastal Environment*. What happens here answers to the view, the skyline, the cliffs, the shape of the place. It also 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 9.5km 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). ## The armour The nearest engineered defence sits 15.7km 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 nearest notable tree on the register is **Narrow-leaved Lacebark** (*angustifolia*), 9 m tall, 1 m through, a crown 8 m across, a veteran, 775m away. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands, not a fresh survey. The canopy: [trees](https://www.chch.live/trees). No scheduled place sits within 1000m of this point. That is a statement about the register, not the ground, unscheduled does not mean unstoried, only that no listing has been made for it. ## 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=-43.68661&lon=172.8986&radius=1000 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.68661,172.8986,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.68661&lon=172.8986&radius=1000