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What stood on this ground?

The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.51789, 172.72547, nothing scheduled in the register here. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary.

The ground itself

This point falls inside Bexley 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 marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Ngā Hau e Whā National Marae, wharenui Aoraki, 2.2km 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, 6.8km 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 wild ledger

This point sits inside a scheduled site of ecological significance, Avon Heathcote Estuary / Ihutai and environs. The plan protects the remnant bush, wetland or outcrop on this ground, clearing it asks for consent. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The kept view

This ground sits inside the plan’s landscape schedules, significant ground in the plan’s grading, NCCE1.0 - Natural Character in the Coastal Environment; SF8.1 - 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

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 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 175 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2014, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 249 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 pedal network

The council’s cycleway layer files a trail about 210 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 1.3 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 “2000 / Donated By / SEAVIEW LIONS”, standing on Bexley Wetland, commissioned 2000. 3 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 2 named grounds. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

The dog rules name this ground, Bexley Wetland (prohibited/leashed); Lower Avon and Bexley Saltmarshes (prohibited); Bexley Wetland (prohibited/leashed); Lower Avon and Bexley Saltmarshes (prohibited). 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.

The armour

The register puts the nearest engineered defence 5.4km 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 1 notable tree within half a kilometre of this point, 1 veteran, the nearest is Macrocarpa (macrocarpa), 23 m tall, 2.2 m through, a crown 15 m across, a veteran, on the file as planted in 2011, 286m 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 280m from this point, a M3.1 on 19 August 2012, 13 km deep, labelled “5 km east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 17 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 28.9km 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 4.2km 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 New Brighton War Memorial & Amphitheatre , 1208m away. 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.

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