What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Bexley and in the Linwood ward, Yani Johanson'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 February 2011 survey drew mapped liquefaction here; 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 Open Space Community Parks (OCP), the open space 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 Ngā Hau e Whā National Marae, wharenui Aoraki, 1.6km 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, 6.1km 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 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, Bexley Landfill, tipped 1956–1984, which the record describes as msw landfill. 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

The record drew water over this point once – 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce. Each patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding, the whole record is drawn at /floods.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 69 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2015, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 134 m away from 2013-07-09, 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 shared path about 89 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 1.5 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 0 m from this point, it reads “In loving memory of / Nigel Grant Mahan / 1970 – 2021 / All round legend, the driving force / behind the post‑earthquake / NAC BMX Club facility rebuild and the / inspiration for this Velosolutions / pumptrack project”, standing on Bexley Park, commissioned 2022. 2 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

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

The files say this ground was made or characterised, Mixed Fill with Rubbish (unvouched fill). A record is the file’s own word on what was laid, not a fresh survey, the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

What the model says

The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as Liquefaction Damage is Possible, River flood basin and estuary plain deposits, observed performance variable and uncertainty in liquefaction performance due to effects of layered silty soil profiles. 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 5.6km 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 1 notable tree within half a kilometre of this point, 1 carrying a protection, the nearest is Totara (totara), 7 m tall, a crown 4 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, 407m 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 255m from this point, a M3.1 on 6 February 2013, 10 km deep, labelled “5 km east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 9 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 28.3km 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 4.5km 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 St Faith's Church and Setting , 1275m away, 50 Hawke 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.