The plan’s word
What the district plan says every patch of ground is allowed to be, 7,427 zoned areas, 148,438 hectares of district filed under 55 zone types. The suburb the twentieth century built is Residential Suburban · 2,015 areas of it. And the ground the Crown wrote off is here too, under its planning name: Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor).
The whole district, zoned
Every zoned area filled by its group: rural pale and open space green under everything, then the city’s fine grain: residential ochre, industrial slate, commercial red, the corridor and the other specific purposes purple. Hover any patch for the plan’s own name for it.
By the group
The plan’s vocabulary
Every zone type on the books, ranked by the ground it covers, from Rural Banks Peninsula’s 85,078 hectares to the single-parcel purposes.
Where the plan builds housing
The suburbs by the share of their outline the plan zones residential, the city’s bedrooms first. Each suburb’s own zoning mix sits on its page.
- Moncks Bay83% residential · mostly Residential Hills
- Bryndwr79% residential · mostly Residential Suburban
- Edgeware76% residential · mostly Medium density residential zone
- Clifton75% residential · mostly Residential Hills
- Spreydon73% residential · mostly Medium density residential zone
- Saint Martins72% residential · mostly Residential Suburban
- Saint Albans72% residential · mostly Medium density residential zone
- Aranui71% residential · mostly Residential Suburban
- Merivale70% residential · mostly Residential Suburban
- PAPANUI68% residential · mostly Medium density residential zone
Questions, answered briefly
The district plan’s word for what a patch of ground is allowed to be. Every parcel in the district sits inside one of 7,427 zoned areas, 148,438 hectares filed across 55 zone types, from Residential Suburban to Industrial Heavy to the open space and rural land that take up most of the map. A zone is a permission, not a description: it says what could stand here, not what does.
On the plan it has a name: Specific Purpose (Otakaro Avon River Corridor), 589 hectares of written-off suburb rezoned as a river corridor. The ground the Crown wrote off in 2011 lives in the plan as a zone like any other; what stood there before it is at /redzone.
By area the district is mostly rural, Banks Peninsula alone is the largest zone on the map. Inside the city the modal word is Residential Suburban, 2,015 areas, 5,018 hectares, the suburb the twentieth century built and the plan kept.
No, the plan regulates the future, not the present. A Residential Suburban zone permits houses; whether one stands, or a shop the plan grandfathered sits inside it, is a different record. The zone is the plan’s word on what could be; a point’s own answer, which zone holds it, is at /before.
The record behind this
Christchurch City Council’s open data, the DistrictPlan service’s DPZone layer, the operative plan’s zones. A zone is a permission, not a description: it says what the plan allows here, not what stands. The ground the corridor replaced is at /redzone; the claims the plan lays over the zones are at /designations, and the places where a listed matter narrows the rule are at /matters; a point’s own zone is at /before.
This page as markdown: /zones.md · the record as data: /zones.json · /zones.geojson · on the live map: /map?layer=zones.