# The plan’s exceptions

Where the usual rules yield, 1,771 qualifying matters across 980 hectares of overlapping claims: the heritage schedule, the culturally and ecologically significant ground, the coast and the floodways, the utility corridors, the industrial edges.

## By the plan’s own type

- Utilities: 158 (312 ha)
- Heritage: 695 (264 ha)
- Section 6: 744 (242 ha)
- Infrastructure: 42 (114 ha)
- Residential: 106 (47 ha)
- NPS Matter: 26 (1 ha)

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Christchurch City Council open data, the DistrictPlan service’s DPQualifyingMatter layer, with the named character streetscapes from DPResidentialCharacter. A qualifying matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid. The cultural-significance areas are drawn unnamed by the plan itself. A point’s own matters: https://www.chch.live/before. The zones: https://www.chch.live/zones · the reservations: https://www.chch.live/designations. The files: https://www.chch.live/matters.json · https://www.chch.live/matters.geojson · by suburb: https://www.chch.live/suburb-matters.json