47–51 Fairfield Avenue
6 council reports since June 2025, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 72 Fairfield Avenue, 47 reports on file.
On the register here
- Addington Cemetery and Setting, 410 Selwyn Street (132m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Baxters Drain, 26 m to the edge
- Addington Cemetery, 32 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Ruskin Reserve, 124 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Braddon Reserve, 203 m to the edge
- Disraeli Reserve, 219 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Richfields, 241 m away · Delis
- Creative Junk, 262 m away · Variety Store
- Atlas Gymnasium, 266 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Everybody's Butchery, 277 m away · Butchers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Disraeli St near Braddon St, 238 m away · route 120
- Selwyn St near Fairfield Ave, 248 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 250 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 464 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 464 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- What a Difference a Drain Makes!, 11 m away ·
What a difference a drain makes! / Push the lever and look down to your right into a repli
· 2000 - The Thistle, Reproduced Here From the Addington Cemetery, 109 m away ·
The Thistle, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, forms part of the Literary Stree
· 2008 - Baxters Drain plaque, 109 m away ·
(Decorative thistle carving – no text)
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Addington ran about $502 a week, $48 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 20 Jul 2026 Graffiti on sign post, Fairfield Ave cemetery entrance
Trees - General, 30 Apr 2026 There are a number of dead trees in the Fairfield Ave and Bradden St entrances to the Addington cemetery. The areas would be improved by the
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 24 Dec 2025 Tagging on sign, Fairfield Ave entrance
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Dec 2025 Dumped stroller frame
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2025 Trolley - identification has been removed . Shoved into bushes on the left hand side as you go down the Fairfield entrance to the cemetery
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Jun 2025 Broken stuff at Fairfield entrance to the cemetery
Elsewhere on Fairfield Avenue
- 72 Fairfield Avenue, 47 reports
- 47 Fairfield Avenue, 40 reports
- 33 Fairfield Avenue, 19 reports
- 68B Fairfield Avenue, 14 reports
- 80 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports
- 64 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports
- 48 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports
- 39 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Fairfield Avenue in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Fairfield Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Addington → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
6 council reports on record since June 2025, most often dumped rubbish (3), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (2), trees - general (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Fairfield Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Addington Cemetery and Setting.
Baxters Drain, 26 m to its edge.