18A Mervyn Drive
8 council reports since August 2016, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 18 Mervyn Drive, 42 reports on file.
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
- Avondale Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 46 pieces
- Amelia Rogers Reserve, 224 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Avon Riverbank True Left, 469 m to the edge · 6 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 201 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 252 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 290 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 298 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 423 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Avondale ran about $600 a week, $50 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti, 3
- Parks, 2
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Facility - General Request, 24 Oct 2025 Vandalism
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 28 Dec 2024 Avondale park toilets please clean off asap and report this address to the Police asap !!! Thank you
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 7 Sept 2024 Graffiti inside males and females toilets
Graffiti, 16 Dec 2023 Fencing graffiti please paint out asap this is a community garden environment. Thankyou
Parks, 9 Feb 2021 avondale park toilet block guttering damaged. Thanks
Parks, 21 May 2017
Community Notice Board has fallen / been pushed over (again)
Graffiti, 12 Aug 2016
Graffiti, 5 Aug 2016
Elsewhere on Mervyn Drive
- 18 Mervyn Drive, 42 reports
- 29 Mervyn Drive, 25 reports
- 23 Mervyn Drive, 9 reports
- 31 Mervyn Drive, 7 reports
- 25 Mervyn Drive, 5 reports
- 39 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 28 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 21 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Mervyn Drive in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Burwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Mervyn Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Avondale → · 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 2016, most often graffiti (3), parks (2), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Avondale, Christchurch, on Mervyn Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Avondale Park, the address is inside it, 4 ha.




