# The kept view

The district plan’s landscape schedules, 460 mapped areas and ridgelines covering 145,408 hectares before overlaps. Outstanding is the strongest standing; significant a step under; the rural landscapes, coastal character areas and main ridgelines carry their own rules.

## The gradings

- Outstanding Landscape: 139 areas, 22,251 ha
- Significant rural landscape: 110 areas, 74,008 ha
- Natural Character in the Coastal Environment: 100 areas, 10,539 ha
- High natural character: 30 areas, 4,207 ha
- Main ridge protection: 30 lines
- Very High natural character: 17 areas, 1,156 ha
- Significant Feature: 13 areas, 2,290 ha
- Outstanding natural character: 12 areas, 2,787 ha
- Outstanding Feature: 8 areas, 3,534 ha
- Coastal environment: 1 area, 24,637 ha

## The suburbs under a kept view

By share of outline inside the scheduled landscape areas, a sampled join, so a sliver still counts.

- Cass Bay: 90% inside the schedules, 60% outstanding, 1 ridgeline
- Little River: 89% inside the schedules, 16% outstanding, 3 ridgelines
- Le Bons Bay: 84% inside the schedules, 25% outstanding, 3 ridgelines
- Duvauchelle: 84% inside the schedules, 8% outstanding, 2 ridgelines
- Sumner: 83% inside the schedules, 82% outstanding
- Pigeon Bay: 83% inside the schedules, 9% outstanding, 5 ridgelines
- Port Levy: 82% inside the schedules, 15% outstanding, 5 ridgelines
- Governors Bay: 80% inside the schedules, 23% outstanding, 1 ridgeline
- Okains Bay: 80% inside the schedules, 8% outstanding, 3 ridgelines
- Te Onepoto Taylors Mistake: 74% inside the schedules, 33% outstanding
- Spencerville: 73% inside the schedules, 25% outstanding
- Brooklands: 73% inside the schedules, 64% outstanding
- Akaroa: 71% inside the schedules, 27% outstanding, 4 ridgelines
- Corsair Bay: 69% inside the schedules, 1 ridgeline
- Wainui: 68% inside the schedules, 21% outstanding, 2 ridgelines

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Christchurch City Council open data, the DistrictPlanB service’s landscape layers (coastal environment, coastal natural character, main ridge protection, natural landscape, significant rural landscape), the operative plan’s landscape schedules. A protection overlay, not a ranking of every good view. A point’s own answer: https://www.chch.live/before · the remembered ground: https://www.chch.live/cultural · the wild ledger: https://www.chch.live/ecology. The files: https://www.chch.live/landscape.json · https://www.chch.live/landscape.geojson · by suburb: https://www.chch.live/suburb-landscape.json