72 Ward Street
4 council reports since August 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 61 Ward Street, 177 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 383 Selwyn Street (209m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 389 Selwyn Street (239m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 391 Selwyn Street (249m)
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
- Selwyn Reserve, 191 m to the edge
- Addington Cemetery, 229 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Ruskin Reserve, 252 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Baxters Drain, 308 m to the edge
- Cornelius O'connor Reserve, 345 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mainland Resene ColorShop, 36 m away · Paint
- Resure, 59 m away · Insurance
- Everybody's Butchery, 67 m away · Butchers
- 319 Addington Motel, 149 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 163 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 252 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 339 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 403 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 441 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.
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 14 Jan 2026 blocked drain
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Jan 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Aug 2022
Pothole, 3 Aug 2022 This hole in the road is outside Mainland Paints on Ward Street in Addington.
Elsewhere on Ward Street
- 61 Ward Street, 177 reports
- 63 Ward Street, 34 reports
- 59 Ward Street, 21 reports
- 30 Ward Street, 15 reports
- 70 Ward Street, 12 reports
- 26 Ward Street, 12 reports
- 6 Ward Street, 10 reports
- 66 Ward Street, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ward Street in 1 crash 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.
Ward 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
4 council reports on record since August 2022, most often dumped rubbish (2), street gutters / storm water (1), pothole (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Ward Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Selwyn Reserve, 191 m to its edge.