# 21 Mervyn Drive, Avondale

4 reports on record since March 2020 · 2 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/avondale/21-mervyn-drive

## What gets reported here
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/problems/parks-maintenance), 2
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/problems/dumped-rubbish), 2

## Reported here
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/3809548), 18 Oct 2023
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/3808918), 17 Oct 2023
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/report/1467006), 2 Mar 2021
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/report/1020212), 13 Mar 2020

## Photographed here (2 on record)
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/report/1467006), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01467006/1_5tlAXo.jpg
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/report/1020212), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01020212/0_S7lYtG

[More photographs on the Avondale wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=avondale)

## Also reported on Mervyn Drive
- [18 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/18-mervyn-drive), 42 reports
- [29 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/29-mervyn-drive), 25 reports
- [23 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/23-mervyn-drive), 9 reports
- [18A Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/18a-mervyn-drive), 8 reports
- [31 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/31-mervyn-drive), 7 reports
- [25 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/25-mervyn-drive), 5 reports
- [39 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/39-mervyn-drive), 4 reports
- [28 Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/avondale/28-mervyn-drive), 4 reports
- [Mervyn Drive, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/avondale/mervyn-drive)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5038&lon=172.6897&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1960-1964](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5038&lon=172.6897&decade=1960_1964), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5038&lon=172.6897&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5038&lon=172.6897&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Haeata Community College (Year 1-8)](https://www.chch.live/school/704-haeata-community-college-year-1-8), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2020
- [Chisnallwood Intermediate](https://www.chch.live/school/3314-chisnallwood-intermediate), Intermediate, years 7–8, in force from Jan 2024
- [St James School (Aranui)](https://www.chch.live/school/3523-st-james-school-aranui), Primary, years 1–6, in force from Jan 2026
- [Haeata Community College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/704-haeata-community-college-year-9-15), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2020
- [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2026

## Bin day (Thursdays)

Bins go out Thursday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week One
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week One

This address is on the council’s Week One calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### [What the ground is](https://www.chch.live/ground)
- **Up to 96% chance of moderate-to-severe land damage**, [Liquefaction](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · Across 30 modelled earthquake scenarios: 56% average likelihood of moderate-to-severe land damage, 96% in the worst modelled scenario.
- **In the residential red zone**, [Residential red zone](https://www.chch.live/redzone) · Land repair would be prolonged and uneconomic. Land here was zoned after the 2010-11 earthquakes and almost all of it has since been cleared.

### Water
- **Inside the modelled 50-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 50 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 50 Year
- **Inside the modelled 200-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 200 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 200 Year · climate change modelled to 2123
- **Blue tsunami evacuation zone**, [Tsunami evacuation](https://www.chch.live/tsunami) · Evacuate zone after long or strong earthquake or in any official advisory or warning of greater than 0.3m wave height at coast _Zone includes sea, rivers, beaches, lagoons and estuaries._
- **In the coastal inundation hazard zone from 2065**, [Coastal inundation](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Inside the mapped coastal inundation zone in 8 modelled scenarios, covering 2065–2120 (RCP 8.5+, RCP 8.5, RCP 4.5, RCP 2.6). _Source: Coastal Hazard Assessment for Christchurch and Banks Peninsula (2017) Stage 2 Peer Review Panel Revision report_

### [Rules on this land](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- **Christchurch / Ōtautahi Clean Air Zone**, [Clean air zone](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Open fires and older woodburners are restricted here under the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. A burner installed before 2001 cannot be replaced like for like.
- **In the Christchurch Airshed**, [Gazetted airshed](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A gazetted airshed is the area the national air quality standard is measured over, the 24-hour PM10 average that this one is allowed to breach once a year. _Zone A_
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Areas of high deprivation**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Freeze on the issue of new off-licences, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences a set distance of this site.

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## 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 crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=mervyn-drive&suburb=avondale)

## 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 →](https://www.chch.live/avondale#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Burwood ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/burwood), the [Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/coastal-burwood-linwood) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## The green nearby
- [Avondale Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1033-avondale-park), 8 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 46 pieces
- [Amelia Rogers Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1622-amelia-rogers-reserve), 265 m to the edge · 2 ha
- [Avon Riverbank True Left](https://www.chch.live/park/1130-avon-riverbank-true-left), 423 m to the edge · 6 ha
- [Avondale Playground](https://www.chch.live/park/1615-avondale-playground), 481 m to the edge · playground, 28 pieces

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Avondale](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-125-avondale), 199 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avondale](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-112-avondale), 241 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avondale](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-119-burwood), 291 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avondale](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-135-burwood), 307 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avondale](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-115-avondale), 371 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 21 Mervyn Drive?**

4 council reports on record since March 2020, most often parks (2), dumped rubbish (2).

**What school is 21 Mervyn Drive zoned for?**

[Haeata Community College (Year 1-8)](https://www.chch.live/school/704-haeata-community-college-year-1-8), [Chisnallwood Intermediate](https://www.chch.live/school/3314-chisnallwood-intermediate), [St James School (Aranui)](https://www.chch.live/school/3523-st-james-school-aranui), [Haeata Community College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/704-haeata-community-college-year-9-15) and [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), and inside the region-wide zone of Hagley Community College, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School, St Thomas of Canterbury College. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.50381946609036,172.6897395123603)

**Which suburb is 21 Mervyn Drive in?**

Avondale, Christchurch, on [Mervyn Drive](https://www.chch.live/street/avondale/mervyn-drive).

**What stood at 21 Mervyn Drive before?**

Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, [the record around this ground →](https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.50381946609036&lon=172.6897395123603)

**What is the nearest park to 21 Mervyn Drive?**

[Avondale Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1033-avondale-park), 8 m to its edge, 4 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=avondale&address=21-mervyn-drive · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Avondale&street=mervyn-drive
