What stood on this ground?
The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.56066, 172.66002, 1 place on record, nearest first. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary.
The ground itself
This point falls inside Opawa 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
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 Open Space Community Parks (OCP), 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, 2.1km 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, 3.9km 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 was filled
This point sits inside a recorded dump, Hansen Park, tipped 1936–1955, which the record describes as domestic rubbish, leather, metal, rubber. The council’s own note: compact silt and shingle fill average 1m thick, overlies landfill. A recorded dump is where the ground was filled, kept on the books because filled ground matters, not a finding about what this address holds today. The whole buried city: /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 named ground
Named water within 500 m of this point, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this point; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The rebuild’s receipts
The rebuild photographed this ground, 804 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2010–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 5 m away, an inlet shot from 2012-07-18, 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 10 m from this point. Within a short walk the layer files 13.9 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The remembered names
The plaque register puts a dedication about 187 m from this point, it reads “DONATED BY THE FAMILY OF HUGH AND JUNE SMITH FOR ALL TO ENJOY”, standing on Hansen Park, commissioned 2008. 6 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 3 named grounds. 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
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
The files say this ground was made or characterised, Mixed Fill with Rubbish (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.
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 1.1km 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 25 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 22 veterans, 3 carrying a protection, the nearest is Macrocarpa (macrocarpa), 15 m tall, 0.6 m through, a crown 8 m across, a veteran, 118m 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 199m from this point, a M3.3 on 10 September 2010, 5 km deep, labelled “Within 5 km of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 15 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 23.0km 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 542m 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.
What the record says
2 unread leads · St Martins, its whole record →
On the register nearby
- Dwelling and Setting, Springbank, 239m · 290 Riverlaw Terrace
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 ±13m. 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.
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