What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Russley and in the Waimairi ward, Sam MacDonald'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 Residential Suburban (RS), the residential 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, 5.8km from this point (Te Ora Hou Ōtautahi — a kaupapa Māori youth and whānau organisation). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Waipapa — Pilgrims Corner, Little Hagley Park, Harper Avenue, 6.8km away, the Māori reserve gazetted in 1858 at Little Hagley Park — the resting place on the old trail; in the 1970s its claim was settled in exchange for the Pages Road land that became Ngā Hau e Whā. 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 TC1, technical category 1, grey. Standard foundations were judged acceptable 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 quiet lines

No air-noise contour covers this point The airport’s bird-strike buffer, 3 km from the path, reaches this far. The whole map is drawn at /noise.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 103 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 62 m away, an access 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 cycle lane about 27 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 5.7 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The rules on this ground

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, Any land that has been subject to the migration of hazardous substances from adjacent land in sufficient quantity that it could be a risk to human health or the environment (part remediated). A listing records the work that ran here, not a soil test, the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The made ground

The files say this ground was made or characterised, Mixed Fill (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.

The cleanup on file

The file says Contaminants managed on site with a Long Term Site Management Plan , managed in place under a long-term plan, "Geotextile and fill cap", in 2020, a verified record. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance, the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

What the model says

The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as Low Liquefaction Vulnerability, River plain and channel 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 11.2km away, a catch fence. 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 Chusan Palm (fortunei), 5 m tall, a crown 3 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, on private land, 293m 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 587m from this point, a M3.5 on 4 September 2010, 17 km deep, labelled “5 km west of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 3 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M4.1 on 4 September 2010, 21 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 14.3km 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 10.3km from this point , still in place. 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 Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting , 1432m away, 165J Racecourse 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.