What stood on this ground?

The ground itself

This point falls inside Cashmere 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 Residential Hills (RH), the residential 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 Puna Wānaka, wharenui Te Mātauranga Māori, 4.5km from this point (Ara Institute of Canterbury — the tertiary whare on the city campus). The nearest named ground the plan schedules is Puāri Pā, Victoria Square and north along the river, 5.3km 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

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, 682 SCIRT frames within a few hundred metres, 2011–2016, wastewater work mostly. The nearest is about 11 m away, an access shot, 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 remembered names

The plaque register puts a dedication about 211 m from this point, it reads “IN MEMORIAM THE ERIE MUNRO PLAYGROUND 1934”, standing on Cracroft Reserve, commissioned 2001. 4 inscribed plaques stand 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 moving ground

No named slope-hazard band covers this point, though it sits inside the broad "remaining slope instability" overlay that blankets the Peninsula hill country, the plan’s background watch, a lighter ask than a named band. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

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 cleanup on file

The file says asbestos removed , dug out and carted away, "Accessible areas remediated.", in 2019, a verified record. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance, the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

What the model says

The 2019 liquefaction vulnerability study draws this ground as Liquefaction Damage is Unlikely, Underlying geology is rock however uncertaininty remains about thickness and characteristics of overlying soil. 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 900m 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 1 notable tree within half a kilometre of this point, 1 veteran, the nearest is Cootamundra wattle (baileyana), 15 m tall, 0.64 m through, a crown 13 m across, a veteran, 330m 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 40m from this point, a M3.1 on 9 March 2026, 4 km deep, labelled “5 km south of Christchurch”, its record at GeoNet. 59 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 20.9km 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 222m from this point , still in place; 11 more pins sit within half a kilometre, 5 marked fallen. 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

• Dwelling and Setting, 176m · 141 Hackthorne Road · on the The hillside climb walk
• Dwelling and Setting, Rise Cottage, 204m · 10 Westenra 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 ±22m. 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.