What stood on this ground?
The heritage register’s answer within 250m of -43.57487, 172.76254, 1 place on record, nearest first. Distances are to each place’s recorded pin, not its boundary.
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 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 Our Lady Star of the Sea School, 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 remembered ground
This point sits inside a scheduled area of significance to Ngāi Tahu, Raekura ki Matuku Takotako (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 Rāpaki Marae, wharenui Wheke, 7.5km from this point (Te Hapū o Ngāti Wheke — papatipu rūnanga of Ngāi Tahu). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Ōtautahi — Tautahi's kāinga, the Avon Loop, near Oxford Terrace and Barbadoes Street, 11.2km away, the seasonal camp of the chief the city is named for — Tautahi, 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 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 named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this point, the open map’s record.
The rebuild’s receipts
The rebuild photographed this ground, 236 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 41 m away, an access shot from 2013-06-10, 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 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 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.
What the model says
The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as Medium Liquefaction Vulnerability, Dune related deposits which are usually well characterised by observed performance, CPT investigations and simplified liquefaction analyses. 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 1 engineered rockfall defence within half a kilometre of this point, 1 rock cable. 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 2 notable trees within half a kilometre of this point, 2 veterans, the nearest is Ngaio (laetum), 8 m tall, 0.95 m through, a crown 14 m across, a veteran, on the file as planted in 2006, 293m 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 279m from this point, a M3.1 on 16 June 2011, 5 km deep, labelled “10 km south-east of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 26 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 31.2km 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 336m from this point , it came down in the shakes; 49 more pins sit within half a kilometre, 44 marked fallen, 1 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
14 unread leads · Sumner, its whole record →
On the register nearby
- Dwelling and Setting, 246m · 58 Colenso Street · 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 ±14m. 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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