What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Southshore 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

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 Coastal (OC), 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 remembered ground

This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, Te Karoro (Ngā Tūranga Tūpuna). The plan formally recognises this ground in the mana whenua cultural landscape, earthworks and works on the water carry extra care here. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Ngā Hau e Whā National Marae, wharenui Aoraki, 4.6km 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, 8.6km 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, outstanding ground, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, HNC34.0 - Area of at least High Natural Character in the Coastal Environment; ONF36.0 - Outstanding Natural Feature. What happens here answers to the view, the skyline, the cliffs, the shape of the place. It also sits inside the coastal environment, the plan’s coastal rules reach this far. 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

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

The plan’s flood map puts this point inside a high flood hazard area, the ground it expects to take water deep or fast. It sits inside the Southshore flood-management area , the catchment’s own watch. The whole flood map is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The drawn water

An esplanade reserve line runs about 11 m away, the plan’s held public edge. The margin’s map is drawn at /water-margin.

The rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 152 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 87 m away from 2013-07-30, 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 rules on this ground

The dog rules name this ground, Te Ihutai Avon Heathcote Estuary (prohibited); Te Ihutai Avon Heathcote Estuary (prohibited); Te Ihutai Avon Heathcote Estuary (prohibited). Freedom camping is prohibited in this zone (Southshore Spit Prohibited Area, Southshore Spit Prohibited Area, Southshore Spit Prohibited 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 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 High Liquefaction Vulnerability, Dune related deposits which are usually well characterised by observed performance, CPT investigations and simplified liquefaction analyses, and the notes flag it for possible lateral spreading near a free face. 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 2.0km 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 Cabbage tree (australis), 6 m tall, a crown 3 m across, a veteran, 436m 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 116m from this point, a M3.0 on 21 March 2011, 5 km deep, labelled “5 km east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 33 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M6.0 on 13 June 2011, 7 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 29.9km 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 1.8km 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 Te Ana o Hineraki/Moa Bone Point Cave and Setting , 1510m away, 8A Balmoral Lane. 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.