What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Saint Martins and in the Cashmere ward, Tim Scandrett's seat, on the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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. 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 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 Hepara Pai Marae, wharenui Te Whakaruruhau, 1.9km from this point (Te Hui Amorangi o Te Waipounamu — the Māori Anglican bishopric of the South Island). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Puāri Pā, Victoria Square and north along the river, 3.2km 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 rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 1116 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 18 m away from 2016-08-23, 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 79 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 15.4 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 182 m from this point, it reads “ST. MARTINS PARK OPENED DEC. 6 1952 BY THE MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH R.M. MACFARLANE ESC. / RESERVES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN M.B. HOWARD / PARKS & RESERVES DIRECTOR M.J. BARNETT M.B.E.”, standing on St Martins Park, commissioned 2003. It is the only inscribed plaque within a short walk. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

2 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

This point sits on the hazardous-activities register, Any other land that has been subject to the intentional or accidental release of a hazardous substance in sufficient quantity that it could be a risk to human health or the environment (remediated). A listing records the work that ran here, not a soil test, the whole register is drawn at /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 asbestos removed , dug out and carted away, in 2019, a verified record. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance, the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The file says soil removed , dug out and carted away, in 2019, a verified record. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance, the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The file says soil removed , dug out and carted away, in 2019, 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 High 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 1.7km away, a rock anchor 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 10 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 7 veterans, 3 carrying a protection, the nearest is Camperdown Elm (glabra), 8 m tall, 0.72 m through, a crown 10 m across, a veteran, 151m 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 488m from this point, a M3.3 on 25 February 2011, 8 km deep, labelled “Within 5 km of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 6 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M6.2 on 22 February 2011, 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 22.4km 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 625m 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 Dwelling and Setting, Springbank , 615m away, 290 Riverlaw Terrace. 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.