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What stood on this ground?

The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.50839, 172.72611, 1 place on record, nearest first. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary.

The ground itself

This point falls inside New Brighton and in the Coastal ward, Celeste Donovan'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

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 Mixed use zone (MUZ), the mixed use 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 plan’s exceptions

2 qualifying matters touch this ground: Tsunami Management Area, Coastal Hazard Medium Risk Management Area. A matter narrows how the density rule applies here, it does not forbid, and the zone underneath still speaks. The whole register is at /matters.

The marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Ngā Hau e Whā National Marae, wharenui Aoraki, 2.6km from this point (Te Rūnanga o Ngā Maata Waka — a national marae, 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, 7.0km away, the seasonal camp of the chief the city is named for — Tautahi, 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 filed this point TC2, technical category 2, yellow. Enhanced foundations, better piles or a stronger slab, were judged necessary here. 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

No high-hazard flood area covers this point It sits inside the Avon River flood-management area , the catchment’s own watch. The whole flood map is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The named ground

Named water within 500 m of this point, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this point, the open map’s record.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 446 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 28 m away from 2012-03-19, 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 pedal network

The council’s cycleway layer files a unclassified about 34 m from this point, it belongs to Te Ara Ōtākaro Avon River Trail, one of the named Major Cycle Routes, and the books mark it not in service. Within a short walk the layer files 0.9 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 319 m from this point, it reads “IN MEMORY OF / DECEASED MEMBERS OF THE / LIONESS CLUB OF PEGASUS”, standing on Avon Riverbank True Left, commissioned 2018. It is the only inscribed plaque within a short walk. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

Freedom camping is managed here, City Coastal Restricted Zone, City Coastal Restricted Zone, City Coastal Restricted Zone. 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 sea’s reach

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 R12/38 2012; ECAN Report R14/78 2014). A modelled reach, not a prediction, and the plan’s line, not the evacuation map. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.

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, 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 6.4km away, a mesh drape 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 9 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 5 veterans, 5 carrying a protection, the nearest is Ngaio (laetum), 6 m tall, 0.96 m through, a crown 9.8 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, 149m 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 409m from this point, a M3.3 on 11 December 2015, 6 km deep, labelled “5 km east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M5.9 on 23 December 2011, 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 29.2km 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 5.3km 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.

What the record says

St Faith's Church and Setting 207m from your point

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On the register nearby

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. Each place’s pin carries its own precision, the nearest is recorded to ±19m. 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.

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