56 McMahon Drive
5 council reports since November 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 86 McMahon Drive, 9 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Mcmahon Reserve, you are in it
- Somerville Reserve, 201 m to the edge
- Nash Reserve, 208 m to the edge · 9 ha
- Mariposa Park, 250 m to the edge · playground, 26 pieces
- Somerville Corridor Reserve, 263 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Mt Magdala Cemetery, 35 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Halswell Community Market, 284 m away · Markets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Aidenfield (near McMahon Dr), 50 m away · route 60
- Aidenfield (near McMahon Dr), 50 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Aidanfield ran about $750 a week, $200 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Pavement - Damaged, 2
- Overgrown Vegetation, 2
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 21 May 2026 Information noticeboard outside Mount Magdala cemetery of the Good Shepherd, Christchurch NZ deteriorating and needs protection from weather
Overgrown Vegetation, 4 May 2026 The shrubs in the Aidanfield Drive/McMahon Drive roundabout need trimming. They are too tall and you can’t see what is coming into the round
Pavement - Damaged, 17 Jan 2026 The pavement has collapsed next to the telecom Service box
Overgrown Vegetation, 27 Aug 2024- Pavement - Damaged, 20 Nov 2022
Elsewhere on McMahon Drive
- 86 McMahon Drive, 9 reports
- 84 McMahon Drive, 9 reports
- 17 McMahon Drive, 6 reports
- 38R McMahon Drive, 4 reports
- 36 McMahon Drive, 4 reports
- 3 McMahon Drive, 4 reports
- 8 McMahon Drive, 3 reports
- 96A McMahon Drive, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names McMahon Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
McMahon Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Aidanfield → · 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
5 council reports on record since November 2022, most often pavement - damaged (2), overgrown vegetation (2), general request (1).
Aidanfield, Christchurch, on McMahon Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Mcmahon Reserve, the address is inside it.



