# The remembered ground

The district plan’s schedule of sites and areas of significance to Ngāi Tahu, 339 mapped areas covering 69,428 hectares: the waters (Ngā Wai), sacred and treasured places (Wāhi Tapu and Wāhi Taonga), the ancestral landscapes (Ngā Tūranga Tūpuna), and the Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan silent files, precincts whose specific sites are deliberately withheld.

## The families

- Ngā Wai: 198 areas, 23,336 ha
- Wāhi Tapu/Wāhi Taonga: 65 areas, 2,684 ha
- Ngā Tūranga Tūpuna: 45 areas, 28,273 ha
- Mahaanui Iwi Management Plan 2013 Silent Files: 31 areas, 15,134 ha

## The suburbs the schedule touches
By share of outline inside the named scheduled areas, a sampled join, so a sliver still counts. Silent-file precincts are counted separately.

- Clifton: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Corsair Bay: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Diamond Harbour: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Moncks Bay: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Redcliffs: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Richmond Hill: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Scarborough: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Southshore: 100% inside scheduled areas
- Te Onepoto Taylors Mistake: 86% inside scheduled areas
- Lyttelton: 85% inside scheduled areas
- Mount Pleasant: 84% inside scheduled areas
- Sumner: 55% inside scheduled areas
- Wainui: 53% inside scheduled areas, silent-file precinct too
- Burwood: 52% inside scheduled areas
- Governors Bay: 49% inside scheduled areas, silent-file precinct too

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Christchurch City Council open data, the DistrictPlanB service’s DPCulturalSignificance layer, the operative plan’s schedule of sites and areas of significance to Ngāi Tahu. A formal recognition, not a catalogue: Ngāi Tahu’s connection to this landscape predates and exceeds the schedule. A point’s own answer: https://www.chch.live/before · the marae: https://www.chch.live/maraes · the heritage schedule: https://www.chch.live/heritage. The files: https://www.chch.live/cultural.json · https://www.chch.live/cultural.geojson · by suburb: https://www.chch.live/suburb-cultural.json