What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Burwood and in the Burwood ward, Kelly Barber's seat, on the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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

the September 2010 survey drew mapped liquefaction here. A patch is the survey’s footprint, not a finding about this address, the certainty tags and the whole 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 Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor) (SPOA), the specific purpose 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 remembered ground

This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, Te Oranga / Waikākāriki (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. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Ngā Hau e Whā National Marae, wharenui Aoraki, 3.6km from this point (Te Rūnanga o Ngā Maata Waka, whose national marae is open to Māori of every iwi). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Ōtautahi, Tautahi's kāinga, the Avon Loop, near Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street, 4.0km away, the seasonal camp of Tautahi, the chief the city is named for and son of Huikai of Koukourārata, on the Avon Loop. 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 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 was filled

This point sits inside a recorded dump, Horseshoe Lake, tipped 1955–1959, which the record describes as council tip and park. The council’s own note: general rubbish dump, 9 acres. A recorded dump is where the ground was filled, kept on the books because filled ground matters, not a finding about what this address holds today. The whole buried city: /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 drawn water

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

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 66 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 88 m away, an outfall, outlet shot, the frame itself. A work log filed as the dig went on, not a survey of what stands today, the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 179 m from this point, standing on Horseshoe Lake Reserve, commissioned 2022. It is the only inscribed plaque within a short walk. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

The dog rules name this ground, Horseshoe Lake Reserve (excluding the fenced Dog Park) (prohibited/leashed); Horseshoe Lake Reserve (excluding the fenced Dog Park) (prohibited/leashed/under effective control); Horseshoe Lake Reserve (excluding the fenced Dog Park) (prohibited/leashed); Horseshoe Lake Reserve (excluding the fenced Dog Park) (prohibited/leashed/under effective control). 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

This point sits on the hazardous-activities register, Cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal (former, unverified). A listing records the work that ran here, not a soil test, the whole register is drawn at /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 Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability, Dune related deposits which are usually well characterised by observed performance, CPT investigations and simplified liquefaction analyses. 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 7.6km 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 register counts 10 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 5 veterans, 5 carrying a protection, the nearest is European Beech (sylvatica), 10 m tall, a crown 8 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, 193m 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 1.0km from this point, a M3.1 on 23 February 2011, 8 km deep, labelled “Within 5 km of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. none within a kilometre, 79 within five, the biggest inside five kilometres a M4.6 on 26 December 2010, 7 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 25.4km 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.

The rocks overhead

The nearest surveyed boulder sits 7.1km 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 Dwelling and Setting , 1925m away, 72 Chancellor Street. 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.