Coverage · Wellington
What PropertyKete checks in Wellington
Six checks return data for a Wellington address today. Every Auckland council hazard layer and the district plan zoning check return no result here — and the report says so rather than showing a clean page. This matters more in Wellington than almost anywhere, because the checks we are missing are the ones the city is known for.
How to read the table below
- Checked — data held — the check runs for Wellington and your report shows a result.
- Checked — no data for this city — the check exists but we hold nothing here, and the report says so. Not a clean result.
- Not checked anywhere — not part of a PropertyKete report for any address, in any city.
Reading “not checked” as “not found” is the mistake that costs people money. The full explanation, including what “not detected” means on your own report.
The Wellington coverage matrix
6 checks with data held · 6 with no data for Wellington · 5 not checked anywhere. Territorial authority: Wellington City.
| Check | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Active fault proximityRuns for every New Zealand address and is always shown in the free preview. It reports whether a mapped active fault trace lies within 500 metres, from GNS Science mapping compiled at 1:250,000 — a national screening scale, not a site survey. It does not give a distance in metres, because the dataset is not precise enough to place a fault within an individual property. | Checked — data held | GNS Science, New Zealand Active Faults Database (NZAFD-AF250) |
| Flood plainPropertyKete holds Auckland Council flood plains only. For a Wellington address the report states that this check has not run — it does not return a clean flood result. | Checked — no data for this city | No Wellington flood hazard layer held |
| Overland flow pathAuckland Council overland flow paths only. No result is produced here. | Checked — no data for this city | No Wellington overland flow path layer held |
| Coastal inundation (current and +1 m sea-level rise)Both coastal checks are Auckland-only. Neither runs here, for coastal addresses or any other. | Checked — no data for this city | No Wellington coastal inundation layer held |
| Landslide susceptibility (shallow and large-scale)Both landslide checks map Auckland Council susceptibility only, and neither produces a result here. | Checked — no data for this city | No Wellington landslide susceptibility layer held |
| Local authorityNames the council responsible for consents, the district plan and property records. This is context, not a risk finding — it is never treated as a concern. | Checked — data held | Stats NZ territorial authority boundaries (TA2025) |
| Zoning and planning overlaysAuckland Unitary Plan zones and overlays are live; Wellington is deferred pending review of the council’s GIS licence terms. The report links you to the council’s own planning maps instead of guessing. | Checked — no data for this city | Wellington City Council district plan GIS — not licensed |
| School enrolment zonesChecks which enrolment zones the address falls inside, and lists schools within 5 km that it is outside. Schools are not a risk check — in-zone results are shown expanded, nearby out-of-zone schools collapsed. Zones change; the school is the authority on its own zone. | Checked — data held | Ministry of Education (2025) |
| Area deprivation (NZDep2023)An area-level measure for the statistical area around the address, not a measure of the property or the people in it. Around 400 of New Zealand’s 32,817 SA1 areas have no published decile; those render as unavailable rather than as a good score. | Checked — data held | University of Otago / Stats NZ 2023 Census |
| Nearby amenitiesA walkability proxy across eight daily-needs categories. OpenStreetMap is crowd-sourced, so it is uneven: a shop that exists but was never mapped will not appear, and a closed one may linger. | Checked — data held | OpenStreetMap |
| Public transport accessDistance to the nearest mapped stops. Same crowd-sourced caveat as amenities — it reflects what has been mapped, not a timetable, a service frequency, or whether a route still runs. | Checked — data held | OpenStreetMap |
| Rental market contextThe check is built, but no bond data is loaded, so no rental finding appears on any report anywhere in New Zealand today. Do not read its absence as a statement about rents. | Checked — no data for this city | MBIE / Tenancy Services rental bond data (not loaded) |
| LiquefactionPropertyKete does not check liquefaction anywhere in New Zealand. No liquefaction dataset is held and no liquefaction finding appears on any report, for any address. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Tsunami evacuation and exposure zonesNo tsunami dataset is held and no tsunami check runs, including for coastal addresses. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Contaminated land / HAILLand-use history and potentially contaminating past activities are not checked. Councils hold this information and a LIM is the usual way to get it. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Easements, covenants and consent historyTitle type is shown as a property fact, but easements, covenants, interests and building or resource consent history are not assessed. These are among the most common sources of an unwelcome surprise, and none of them is in a PropertyKete report. | Not checked anywhere | — |
| Terrain, slope and wind exposure as a findingSome hazard layers use terrain internally, but there is no user-facing terrain, slope or wind finding. | Not checked anywhere | — |
What we do not hold for Wellington
No Wellington City Council or Greater Wellington Regional Council hazard layers are ingested — that means no council flood hazard modelling, no coastal inundation or erosion layer, and no slope or landslide susceptibility mapping. No Wellington City district plan data is held either, so zoning, heritage and character-area overlays are not checked. A Wellington report will not mention any of these, and that silence is a gap in our coverage, not a clear result.
The active fault check does run here
Active fault proximity is national and always appears in the free preview, including for Wellington addresses. It uses GNS Science mapping compiled at 1:250,000 — enough to say whether a mapped trace lies within 500 metres of an address, not precise enough to place it within a section, which is why we do not quote a distance in metres. A result either way is not a substitute for a geotechnical report or the council’s own hazard information.
Before you rely on this
For a Wellington property, the council’s hazard maps and a LIM will tell you things PropertyKete currently cannot. We would rather say that plainly than let a short report imply a short risk list.
The fault check runs in the one city where its scale matters most
Wellington is the city where a buyer is most likely to open a PropertyKete report specifically to see the active fault result — and the city where the gap between what that result says and what a buyer wants it to say is widest. It is worth being exact about which is which.
What the check does: it reports whether a mapped active fault trace lies within 500 metres of the property, from GNS Science mapping compiled at 1:250,000. It runs for every New Zealand address and always appears in the free preview.
What it deliberately does not do: give a distance in metres, or grade how close is close. AF250 is a national screening dataset. GNS states it should not be used at a scale finer than 1:100,000, and at that stated floor one millimetre of map line is already 100 metres of ground. Just over half the traces we hold are not classed by GNS as accurately located. AF250 does not support grading distance at parcel scale inside the 500 metre present state, so we show neither a distance nor a closeness band, and a result either way is not a statement about whether a fault crosses your section.
The mapping that can affect the planning provisions applying to development near a mapped Wellington fault sits in Wellington City Council’s District Plan, as natural hazard overlays mapped at planning scale. PropertyKete does not hold them. A property can sit inside a District Plan fault overlay and still produce nothing more from us than the same 500-metre statement any neighbouring property gets.
Published by others — not held by PropertyKete
These are the publishers’ own tools. Nothing below is ingested into PropertyKete or appears in a report.
ePlan — the District Plan online · Wellington City Council
Search an address, then open “Property Specific District Plan Chapters” to see the provisions that apply to that property — including the natural hazard overlays the plan maps. This is the council’s own mapping at planning scale, and it is the right place to find out whether a fault overlay applies to a specific Wellington section.
Link checked 2026-09-06.
Wellington hazard information PropertyKete does not hold
Greater Wellington Regional Council and Wellington City Council both publish hazard information for the region. None of it is ingested by PropertyKete, and linking to it here does not change that: a Wellington report will not mention flood modelling, slope failure or coastal hazard, because those checks return no data for this city, not because the ground is clear.
Two things are worth carrying into that reading. The regional information is produced at a range of scales and is not necessarily property-specific — the same limitation our own fault check has, stated by the council about its own data. And an absence in it means the same thing an absence in our report means.
Published by others — not held by PropertyKete
These are the publishers’ own tools. Nothing below is ingested into PropertyKete or appears in a report.
LIM hazard information · Greater Wellington Regional Council
The regional council’s summary of the hazard information it supplies to territorial authorities for LIMs, with links to the underlying maps.
“This page does not include all natural hazard information only those known to or mapped by Greater Wellington. The absence of hazard information does not necessarily mean the site is hazard free.” — Greater Wellington Regional Council, checked 2026-09-06
Detailed Flood Hazard Map · Greater Wellington Regional Council
The regional council’s interactive flood hazard extents for the Wellington region — the flood picture a PropertyKete Wellington report has no data for.
Link checked 2026-09-06.
What a Wellington buyer should do that this page cannot
Order the LIM. Wellington City Council is the authority on the consent, zoning and hazard information it holds for the property, and a LIM is how a buyer gets it. Nothing on this site substitutes for one.
If the fault result matters to your decision — and in Wellington it often will — the next step is not a better map. It is a geotechnical engineer, and the council’s own hazard and planning records for the specific section. Our result is a prompt to ask that question properly, not an answer to it.
Guides for reading a Wellington report
A Wellington report carries the nationwide fault check but no council hazard layers. These guides cover what the fault finding does and does not settle, what a LIM holds instead, and how to read flood information wherever it comes from.
Absence of a finding is not absence of risk
Everything on this page is about what PropertyKete has data for, not about what is true of the ground. A report is not a LIM, a valuation, a building report, or legal or engineering advice. For anything that matters to a purchase decision, the council, a solicitor and the relevant engineer are the people who can answer it.