Ground the district plan reserves for a public work, 521
designated areas, 3,631 hectares
claimed by the state, the council and the utilities. The airport’s
thousand hectares and the road network’s hundreds are the big
claims; the schools hold more ground than either. And the Frame,
the quake-era border that was to bound a smaller, greener centre,
is still here, twenty small designations along the city’s edges.
Designated areas
521
Reserved ground
3,631 ha
the plan’s claims
For schools
460 ha
147 sites
The Frame
20
the quake-era border
The reserved ground, drawn
Every designated area filled by its family,
movement in slate, schools in ochre, pipes in blue, power and
signal in purple, civic in brown, the Frame in red. Hover any
patch for the work it is held for.
By the family
Movement2.1K ha · 2582,092 ha · 258
Civic836 ha · 9
Learning460 ha · 147
Power & signal142 ha · 56
Pipes71 ha · 22
Other22 ha · 9
The Frame9 ha · 20
The plan’s purposes
Every kind of reservation on the books, ranked by
the ground it holds: road ahead of schools ahead of the airport.
AirportMovement · 11 areas1.1K ha1,082 ha
RoadMovement · 219 areas829 ha
Christchurch PrisonCivic · 2 areas799 ha
Primary SchoolLearning · 69 areas160 ha
RailwayMovement · 10 areas150 ha
EducationLearning · 42 areas127 ha
Secondary SchoolLearning · 12 areas92 ha
National Grid Including Electricity SubstationPower & signal · 5 areas86 ha
StormwaterPipes · 3 areas59 ha
Telecommunication and Radio Communication and AncillaryPower & signal · 39 areas47 ha
DefencePower & signal · 2 areas37 ha
Intermediate SchoolLearning · 9 areas36 ha
Special SchoolLearning · 4 areas15 ha
Secondary School and Early Childhood EducationLearning · 4 areas13 ha
Primary School and Early Childhood EducationLearning · 4 areas9 ha
Waste Transfer StationPipes · 6 areas9 ha
Residential Treatment Centre for Adolescent Sexual AbusersMovement · 1 area8 ha
Electricity SubstationPower & signal · 10 areas8 ha
Metro Sports FacilityMovement · 1 area7 ha
Stadium (Incorporating Spectator Events Facility)Other · 1 area7 ha
Who holds the ground
The requiring authorities, ranked by reserved
area, the airport’s operator first, then the transport agency,
the Minister of Education’s school sites, and the council’s own.
Christchurch International Airport Limited11 designations1.1K ha1,082 ha
New Zealand Transport Agency173 designations807 ha
Minister of Corrections2 designations799 ha
Minister of Education147 designations460 ha
KiwiRail Holdings Limited10 designations150 ha
Christchurch City Council86 designations107 ha
Transpower New Zealand Limited4 designations85 ha
Minister of Defence2 designations37 ha
Radio New Zealand Limited2 designations26 ha
Ōtākaro Limited23 designations19 ha
Chorus New Zealand Limited / Telecom New Zealand Limited10 designations15 ha
Minister for Children2 designations12 ha
The Frame
The quake-era designations along the central
city’s north, east and south edges, the green border the rebuild
plan drew around a smaller centre. Small parcels, every one.
The plan’s reservation, a patch of ground a requiring authority holds for a public work. The district carries 521 of them across 3,631 hectares: the roads and rail line, the schools and the airport, the waterworks, the substations, and the quake-era Frame. A designation is a claim on the land, the authority may build the work, and others' use of the ground is limited until they do or let it lapse.
What does the plan reserve most?
By area the answer is movement, 2,092 hectares across 258 designations. The airport’s thousand hectares and the road network’s hundreds are the big claims; the schools together hold more ground than either.
What is the Frame?
The quake-era anchor, 20 small designations along the central city’s north, east and south edges, reserved in the rebuild years for the green frame that was to bound the new centre. Some of it is built and some of it isn’t; the designations remain the plan’s record of the intent.
Who holds the reservations?
The requiring authorities read like the state itself, Christchurch International Airport Limited holds the most by area, then the Minister of Education’s school sites, the council’s own works, Transpower, KiwiRail, the Ministers of Corrections and Defence. Each entry’s schedule letter is the plan’s own label for its holder.
Does a designation mean the work is coming?
Not necessarily. A designation is a claim kept warm, some stand for decades unbuilt, some lapse by their expiry date, some are the ground the city already runs on. The record says what the plan reserves, not when it happens; a point’s own designation is at /before.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the DistrictPlan service’s
DPDesignation layer, the operative plan’s schedule of reserved
ground. A designation is a claim, not a build date, some stand
for decades unbuilt. The zones' own word is at
/zones, the places where a listed matter
narrows the rule are at /matters; a point’s
own designation is at /before.