What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Coutts Island and in the Harewood ward, Aaron Keown's seat, on the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood community board’s ground, measured against the drawn boundaries, so a point near an edge belongs to the side it is on, not the side its address is described as. The whole roll is at /wards.

The ground that moved

Neither post-quake survey drew a mapped patch over this point, no liquefaction, no flooding on the record here. The record’s edges and the city’s count are at /liquefaction.

The Crown’s line

The Crown’s 2011 classification left this point outside the residential red zone, whatever the surveys mapped, the line the government bought out did not cross it. The whole boundary is drawn at /redzone.

The plan’s word

The district plan files this ground as Rural Waimakariri (RuW), the rural family. A zone is a permission, not a description, it says what the plan allows on this patch, not what stands on it. The whole district’s zoning is drawn at /zones.

The marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi, wharenui Te Iho o te Ora, 5.5km from this point (Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi, a kaupapa Māori youth and whānau organisation). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Kaiapohia, Kaiapoi Pā, north of the Waimakariri, near Waikuku, 8.7km away, the great fortified capital of Ngāi Tahu, Tūrākautahi's pā, sacked by Te Rauparaha in 1832 after a siege of months; its fall is why the rūnanga moved to Tuahiwi. The whole roll of marae and the grounds the plan names are kept at /maraes, a record of what the file says, not a claim on this point.

The kept view

This ground sits inside the plan’s landscape schedules, significant ground in the plan’s grading, SF2.0 - Significant Feature. What happens here answers to the view, the skyline, the cliffs, the shape of the place. The whole map of kept views is at /landscape.

The ground’s grade

The 2011 grading never reached this point, the categories ran over the flat residential land, and this ground sits outside them. A category is the verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about this address, that belongs to an engineer. The grades, drawn: /technical-categories.

The ground itself

No recorded dump under this point, the council keeps the old tips on the books and this ground isn’t one of them. The ones that are, from 1880 on: /landfills.

When the water came

No recorded flood patch reaches this point, the council’s layer keeps the water it saw, and it never drew water here. The ground it did draw: /floods.

The waiting water

The plan’s flood map puts this point inside a high flood hazard area, the ground it expects to take water deep or fast. The whole flood map is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The quiet lines

The plan’s noise map puts this point inside the 55 dB Ldn Air Noise Contour, the airport’s own reach. The airport’s bird-strike buffer, 8 km from the path, reaches this far. The whole map is drawn at /noise.

The drawn water

The plan’s water-margin layers hold this point, inside a 20-metre setback strip along a Upstream Waterway. The margin’s map is drawn at /water-margin.

The rules on this ground

3 bottle-store buffers hold around this point, new liquor licences are fenced by distance. The ground sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this is the register’s own drawing of it, thinned to about four metres; the legal wording wins where they differ. The whole rulebook: /rules.

The dangerous work

No hazardous-activities listing reaches this point, the register keeps the parcels where contaminating work ran, and this isn’t one of them. The ones that are: /hazards.

The made ground

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.

What the model says

The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as Liquefaction Damage is Possible, River plain and channel deposits, observed performance variable and uncertainty in liquefaction performance. That is a district-scale screening read, not a finding about an address, the study itself says site-specific analysis confirms a parcel. What the ground actually did in February 2011 is the record above; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The armour

The register puts the nearest engineered defence 14.5km away, a rock cable installed 2011. Nearly all of these are the emergency works the quake years left standing, the file’s condition rating is its own word, not a fresh inspection. The whole register is drawn at /defences.

The canopy

The nearest notable tree on the register is Common Walnut (regia), 9 m tall, 0.59 m through, a crown 13 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, on private land, 891m away. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands, not a fresh survey. The whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The shakes near here

The nearest break GeoNet recorded sits 1.4km from this point, a M3.2 on 9 May 2011, 11 km deep, labelled “10 km north-west of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. none within a kilometre, 8 within five, the biggest inside five kilometres a M3.4 on 21 September 2010, 8 km deep. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not where the shaking was felt; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

The fault nearest here

The nearest mapped fault trace sits 20.6km from this point , part of the Ashley Fault Zone. 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.

The rocks overhead

The nearest surveyed boulder sits 13.5km from this point , it came down in the shakes. A pin is where the survey saw the rock, not a promise about the slope, the whole survey is at /boulders.

No scheduled place sits within 250m of this point. Widened to 2 km, the nearest on record is Harewood Crematorium, Chapel and Setting , 1324m away, 509 Johns Road. 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. The radius is yours to widen, ask again at 1000m. A register listing is a lead to follow, not by itself a claim, and if the record has this ground wrong, the corrections door is open.