The wild ledger

The district plan’s ecological significance schedules, 130 mapped sites where the plan keeps its account of what still lives: remnant bush, wetlands, estuary edges, tussock and rock outcrops. Schedule A is protected ground; Schedule B is the sighting still waiting on the landowner’s handshake.

Scheduled sites

130

Protected

Schedule A, the rules apply

Identified only

Schedule B: private land, pending

From

Schedule 9.9.5

of the operative district plan

Where the wild is on the books

Solid green for the Schedule A sites the plan protects; dashed green for Schedule B: sites recorded on private land where protection is still being worked through with the owners. Hover any site for its schedule and name. A point’s own answer is at /before, and the cultural landscape these sites often sit inside is at /cultural.

Two schedules, two standings

Schedule A protects; Schedule B records. 25 names sit on both lists, part of a place protected while the rest waits on the conversation.

Schedule A Sites of Ecological Significance

Schedule B Information only – Ecological sites on private land that require further collaboration with landowners

The suburbs the schedules touch

By share of outline inside the scheduled sites, read from a sampled join, so a sliver still counts. The protected and the identified shares are counted together here; the split is on each suburb’s page.

Brooklands61% inside scheduled sites
Bromley54% inside scheduled sites
Southshore46% inside scheduled sites
Ferrymead45% inside scheduled sites
Spencerville41% inside scheduled sites
South New Brighton28% inside scheduled sites
Burwood28% inside scheduled sites
Bexley26% inside scheduled sites
Kainga13% inside scheduled sites
Waimairi Beach12% inside scheduled sites

Questions, answered briefly

What is this map?

The district plan’s ecological significance schedules, 130 mapped sites covering 20,400 hectares: the remnants of what grew and lived here before the city, bush fragments, wetlands, estuary edges, tussock and rock outcrops the plan formally recognises.

What is the difference between Schedule A and B?

Schedule A sites are protected, the plan’s rules apply to what happens on that ground. Schedule B (65 sites) is information only: ecological sites on private land the plan has recorded but not yet protected, pending collaboration with the landowners. Being on B is a sighting, not a shield.

Why does the same name appear in both schedules?

Several places carry both listings, part of the ground protected under Schedule A while another part is still the Schedule-B conversation with its owners. The schedules mark status, not whole places.

Is unlisted land ecologically worthless?

No. The schedule marks what the plan formally recognises, an unlisted stream bank or garden can still hold native lizards, birds and remnant planting. The schedule is the protected core, not the whole of the city’s ecology.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the DistrictPlanB service’s DPEcologicalSignificance layer, the operative plan’s ecological significance schedules. Schedule A is the protected list; Schedule B is recorded for information only, a sighting, not a shield, while the council works with the landowners. The schedule is a formal recognition, not a survey of every living place. The cultural landscape sits at /cultural, the waterways at /water, and the parks at /parks.

This page as markdown: /ecology.md · the record as data: /ecology.json · /ecology.geojson.