5 Eglinton Street
6 council reports since August 2020, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Eglinton Street.
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 Playground, 139 m to the edge · playground, 28 pieces
- Avondale Park, 314 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 46 pieces
- Emlyn Playground, 409 m to the edge · playground, 26 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 79 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 266 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 440 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 471 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 26 Jan 2025 Vegetation over growing the footpath. Difficult to walk past
Water Leak, 18 Jan 2025 Water trickling out from connection onto footpath and into guttet on corner of Niven & Eglinton Street
Overgrown Vegetation, 18 Jan 2025 Overgrown trees hanging over footpath
Water Leak, 6 Jun 2024- Graffiti, 25 Mar 2023
Graffiti, 14 Aug 2020
Elsewhere on Eglinton Street
- 2 Eglinton Street, 4 reports
- 37 Eglinton Street, 2 reports
- 3 Eglinton Street, 2 reports
- 4 Eglinton Street, 1 report
- 31 Eglinton Street, 1 report
- 29 Eglinton Street, 1 report
- 28 Eglinton Street, 1 report
- 27 Eglinton Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Eglinton Street 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.
Eglinton Street, 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
6 council reports on record since August 2020, most often water leak (2), overgrown vegetation (2), graffiti (2).
Avondale, Christchurch, on Eglinton Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Avondale Playground, 139 m to its edge.




