# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.80338, 172.96891, 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 [Akaroa](https://www.chch.live/akaroa) 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 3.2km from this point, a M3.0 on 12 July 2011, 5 km deep, labelled "Within 5 km of Akaroa" ([its record at GeoNet](https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/3544813)). none within a kilometre, 2 within five, the biggest inside five kilometres a M3.5 on 1 October 2010, 25 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). The plan’s heritage schedule protects this ground, the setting of **Trinity Church, Hall and Setting**, graded highly significant and on the national register as Category 2. 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 54.0km 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). The record drew water over this point once, 2008 Akaroa Basin Harbour Settlements Study. Each patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding, the whole record is at [floods](https://www.chch.live/floods). This is Akaroa’s heritage character area, the old town’s shape answers to the plan’s keeping. The allowed shape: [density](https://www.chch.live/density). The rebuild photographed this ground, **2** SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 391 m away, an access shot, [the frame itself](https://gis.ccc.govt.nz/image/SCIRT/Photos/Manhole_Photos/WWFCMH34953_34953b_20130109144114.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 **66 m** from this point, it reads “To Commemorate AKAROA CRICKET CLUB CENTENNIAL 24 FEBRUARY 1995”, standing on Akaroa Recreation Ground, commissioned 2008. 35 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 9 named grounds. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques). The rules on this ground, freedom camping is prohibited in this zone (Akaroa Prohibited Area, Akaroa Prohibited Area, Akaroa Prohibited Area); inside the takiwā of Te Runanga o Onuku. 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 plan’s mapped inundation extent covers this point, the sea could reach here in a tsunami, on NIWA’s modelling for Environment Canterbury (ECAN Report R14/78 2014). A modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s line, not the evacuation map. The whole extent: [tsunami](https://www.chch.live/tsunami). 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). This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, *Whakaroa (Akaroa)* (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. It also 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 [Ōnuku Marae](https://www.chch.live/marae/onuku), wharenui Karaweko, 4.0km from this point (Ōnuku Rūnanga and the hapū Ngāi Tārewa and Ngāti Irakehu of Ngāi Tahu). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is **Ōnawe Pā**, the Ōnawe peninsula, Akaroa Harbour, 2.0km 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. 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 10.5km 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 29.2km away, a rock anchor installed 2012. 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 **34** notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, **3** veterans, 31 carrying a protection, the nearest is **Canary Island Palm** (*canariensis*), 5 m tall, a crown 2.5 m across, carrying a district plan significant protection, on private land, 62m 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 250m 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=-43.803379&lon=172.968913&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.803379,172.968913,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.803379&lon=172.968913&radius=250