What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Christchurch Central and in the Central ward, Jake McLellan's seat, on the Papanui-Innes-Central 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 City centre zone (CCZ), 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 marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Te Puna Wānaka, wharenui Te Mātauranga Māori, 650m from this point (Ara Institute of Canterbury — the tertiary whare on the city campus). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Puāri Pā, Victoria Square and north along the river, 472m away, the Waitaha settlement on the Ōtākaro bank — the oldest village the city centre covers, and later the market where Ngāi Tūāhuriri sold produce. 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

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 ground is zoned Category 1, Higher Noise Level Entertainment and Hospitality Precincts , the central city’s graded night. And inside the Outer Noise Insulation, CMUA , where the walls must answer the loud. The whole map is drawn at /noise.

The allowed shape

The central-city walking catchment reaches this far, the ten-minute city the plan draws. The shape’s map is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 1229 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 19 m away, an access shot from 2011-12-18, 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 41 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 9.6 km of network, 2.2 km of it separated from the traffic. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 70 m from this point, it reads “Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (Māori text and English translation describing the prow at Arapawa (Marlborough Sounds), the stern at Motu Pōhue (Bluff), Rakiura as the anchor stone of Māui's vessel; concluding: ‘Again, ready is the Canoe Bailer of Tahu.’) / Lewis Tamihana Gardiner / Te Arawa, Ngāi Awa, Whānau Ä€panui, Ngāi Tahu”, standing on Bailer, commissioned 2015. 10 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 4 named grounds. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

No alcohol here, this point sits inside a ban area (Central City, Central City, Central City), in force around the clock. The dog rules name this ground, Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed); Central City (leashed). Freedom camping is managed here, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area, Christchurch Urban Restricted Area. 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 cleanup on file

The file says soil removed , managed in place under a long-term plan, "Subject To OSMP", in 2024, 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 Medium 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 4.4km 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 135 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 15 veterans, 124 carrying a protection, the nearest is Golden Ash (excelsior), 2 m tall, a crown 3 m across, carrying a resource consent protection, on private land, 233m 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 50m from this point, a M4.6 on 26 December 2010, 7 km deep, labelled “Within 5 km of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 11 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M4.7 on 26 December 2010, 5 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 21.8km 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 3.4km 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

On the register nearby

• 159 Manchester Street, 34m · 159 Manchester Street
• Triangle Reserve and Setting, 57m · 192F High Street · on the The old high street walk
• Triangle Reserve and Setting, 60m · 220F High Street · on the The old high street walk
• Commercial Building and Setting, 71m · 225 High Street · on the The old high street walk
• Commercial Building and Setting, Former Wellington Woollen Mills Manufacturing Company, 133m · 96 Lichfield Street

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 ±14m. 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.