What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Sumner 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 listed city

The plan’s heritage schedule protects this ground, the setting of Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting, graded highly significant. The setting travels with the item, altering or demolishing here is a consent question the unlisted neighbour doesn’t face.

The whole schedule is at /heritage.

The remembered ground

This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, Tuawera (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, 6.9km from this point (Te Rūnanga o Ngā Maata Waka, whose national marae is 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, 10.5km 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, outstanding ground, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, ONF36.0 - Outstanding Natural Feature. What happens here answers to the view, the skyline, the cliffs, the shape of the place. 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 rebuild’s receipts

The rebuild photographed this ground, 216 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 63 m away from 2014-03-06, 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 63 m from this point, it belongs to Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway, one of the named Major Cycle Routes. Within a short walk the layer files 2.7 km of network. The whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 26 m from this point, it reads “In Memory of / JOSEPH DAY / DIED 4TH APRIL 1913 / PILOT AT SUMNER FROM / SEPTEMBER 1867 UNTIL HIS DEATH / DURING WHICH PERIOD HE WAS / INSTRUMENTAL IN SAVING 26 LIVES.”, standing on Cave Rock Reserve, commissioned 2000. 10 inscribed plaques stand within a short walk, across 4 named grounds. The whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rules on this ground

The dog rules name this ground, Cave Rock (leashed); Sumner Beach (summer beach prohibition). 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

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 887m 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 35 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 35 carrying a protection, the nearest is Norfolk island pine (heterophylla), 13 m tall, a crown 7 m across, carrying a district plan protection, on the file as planted in 1998, 97m 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 254m from this point, a M3.1 on 23 December 2011, 13 km deep, labelled “10 km east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 30 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 31.0km 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 551m from this point , still hanging, and it wobbles easy. 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

On the register nearby

• Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting, 15m · on the The sea front walk
• The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting, 160m · on the The sea front walk

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 ±70m. 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.