What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Somerfield 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

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 Specific Purpose (School) (SPS), the specific purpose 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 plan’s reservations

The district plan holds this ground for Te Kura Kaupapa Maori o Te Whanau Tahi, Minister of Education's claim. A designation is a reservation, not a build date, the authority may use the ground for that work, which is not the same as saying it will soon. The full register is at /designations.

The marae and the old grounds

The nearest marae on the roll is Te Puna Wānaka, wharenui Te Mātauranga Māori, 3.9km from this point (Ara Institute of Canterbury, whose tertiary whare stands on the city campus). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Waipapa, Pilgrims Corner, Little Hagley Park, Harper Avenue, 4.1km away, the Māori reserve gazetted in 1858 at Little Hagley Park, the resting place on the old trail; in the 1970s its claim was settled in exchange for the Pages Road land that became Ngā Hau e Whā. 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, Centannial Park, tipped 1915–1947, which the record describes as household, commercial, iron, demo, tins, clinker. The council’s own note: Still dumping informally 50's & 60's.. 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

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 drawn water

An esplanade reserve line runs about 42 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, 573 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2000–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 64 m away, an access shot from 2013-07-29, 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 51 m from this point, it belongs to Nor'West Arc, one of the named Major Cycle Routes. Within a short walk the layer files 6.5 km of network, 1.1 km of it separated from the traffic. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 176 m from this point, it reads “In Loving Memory of / Ian Whitehead / Ian was the source of ideas, / an inspirational leader, colleague and dear friend. / Forever in our thoughts”, standing on Pioneer Rec And Sports Centre. It is the only inscribed plaque within a short walk. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

1 bottle-store buffer holds 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, Cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal (current, unverified). A listing records the work that ran here, not a soil test, the whole register is drawn at /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 3.2km away, a catch fence. 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 21 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 3 veterans, 18 carrying a protection, the nearest is Dawn redwood (glyptostroboides), 18 m tall, 0.85 m through, a crown 14 m across, carrying a subdivision protection, on private land, 107m 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 140m from this point, a M3.7 on 23 February 2011, 7 km deep, labelled “Within 5 km of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 23 magnitude-3+ epicentres sit within a kilometre, the biggest inside five kilometres a M5.6 on 22 February 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 19.1km 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 2.4km 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.

No scheduled place sits within 250m of this point. Widened to 2 km, the nearest on record is Dwelling and Setting, Hursthaven , 1184m away, 16 Hackthorne 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.