# What stood on this ground? The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.80380, 172.97033, 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 3.3km 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 **Specific Purpose (Cemetery)** (SPC), the specific purpose 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 **French Cemetery Akaroa**, 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 54.1km 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 plaque register puts a dedication about **0 m** from this point, it reads “In Memory of Madam Libeau, Pierre David, Le Vaillant, Etéveneaux, Mlle Amelie Etéveneaux, Mon. Fleur, Rouslot, André Jendrot, Capt. Edourd Le Lièvre, Mr Magee, Mrs Magee, Mr Peter Walter ... EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL MAY 1842”, standing on L'Aube Hill Reserve, commissioned 2008. 32 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). 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, 2.1km 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 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 10.7km 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 29.3km 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 **Chusan Palm** (*fortunei*), 9.5 m tall, 0.63 m through, a crown 7 m across, carrying a district plan significant protection, on private land, 96m 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=-43.8038&lon=172.97033&radius=250 Map: https://www.chch.live/map?mode=places#-43.8038,172.97033,18 Data: https://api.chch.live/before?lat=-43.8038&lon=172.97033&radius=250