What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Ferrymead and in the Heathcote ward, Nathaniel Herz Jardine'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 Open Space Water and Margins (OWM), 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 marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Te Hepara Pai Marae, wharenui Te Whakaruruhau, 3.9km 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 Ōtautahi, Tautahi's kāinga, the Avon Loop, near Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street, 6.2km away, the seasonal camp of Tautahi, the chief the city is named for and 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 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; SF10 - Significant 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

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 waiting water

No high-hazard flood area covers this point It sits inside the Heathcote River 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 3 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, 275 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2012–2014, stormwater work mostly. The nearest is about 53 m away, an access shot from 2012-06-28, 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 unclassified about 2 m from this point, it belongs to Ōpāwaho River, one of the named Major Cycle Routes, and the books mark it not in service. Within a short walk the layer files 4.0 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The rules on this ground

The dog rules name this ground, Lower Heathcote Saltmarshes (prohibited/leashed); Lower Heathcote Saltmarshes (Ferrymead) (prohibited/leashed); Lower Heathcote Saltmarshes (prohibited/leashed); Lower Heathcote Saltmarshes (Ferrymead) (prohibited/leashed). 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.

The armour

The register puts the nearest engineered defence 916m 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 carrying a protection, the nearest is Ngaio (laetum), 5 m tall, a crown 8 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, on private land, 387m 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 334m from this point, a M3.2 on 3 March 2011, 7 km deep, labelled “5 km south-east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 26 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 26.4km 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 740m 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, Ferrymead House , 583m away, 285 Bridle Path 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.