52A Burke Street
8 council reports since August 2021, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 91 Burke Street, 39 reports on file.
On the register here
- Addington Cemetery and Setting, 410 Selwyn Street (241m)
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
- Ruskin Reserve, 3 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Baxters Drain, 22 m to the edge
- Addington Cemetery, 166 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Braddon Reserve, 297 m to the edge
- Antigua Reserve, 328 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
- Everybody's Butchery, 248 m away · Butchers
- Mainland Resene ColorShop, 279 m away · Paint
- Resure, 282 m away · Insurance
- 319 Addington Motel, 343 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Selwyn St near Fairfield Ave, 257 m away · route 60
- Antigua St near Fairfield Ave, 261 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 237 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 277 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 473 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
- Rain Garden 8 Type III, 19 m away ·
RAIN GARDEN 8 TYPE III
· 2008 - The Thistle, Reproduced Here From the Addington Cemetery, 25 m away ·
The Thistle, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, forms part of the Literary Stree
· 2008 - Baxters Drain plaque, 25 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 1 Dec 2025 The grass berm out the front of 52A Burke Street is extremely overgrown and a potential fire risk. Can this please be cut
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 3 Nov 2025 Brown paint tag on the footpath at 52a Burke Street.
Playground Equipment, 27 Oct 2024 Swing needs cleaning/refreshing
Playground Equipment, 30 Sept 2024 Please remove graffiti on playground equipment in ruskin reserve
- Graffiti, 31 Oct 2022
Graffiti, 4 Apr 2022 Black paint tag on metal conduit cover and also on wooden Chorus pole CH 101071 opposite 49 Burke Street.
Rubbish/Recycling, 25 Aug 2021 Hi, I just been for walk and in the Ruskin reserve people have been dumping rubbish into the trolley. Thank you for your help. Tereza
Rubbish/Recycling, 24 Aug 2021 In the park
Elsewhere on Burke Street
- 91 Burke Street, 39 reports
- 46 Burke Street, 32 reports
- 72 Burke Street, 25 reports
- 77 Burke Street, 18 reports
- 42A Burke Street, 13 reports
- 83 Burke Street, 12 reports
- 61 Burke Street, 10 reports
- 88 Burke Street, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Burke Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Burke Street, 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
8 council reports on record since August 2021, most often rubbish/recycling (2), playground equipment (2), graffiti (2).
Addington, Christchurch, on Burke Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Addington Cemetery and Setting.
Ruskin Reserve, 3 m to its edge.






