7 Besant Place
5 council reports since December 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Besant Place.
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
- Ripene Ma, 187 m to the edge
- Hulverstone Reserve, 201 m to the edge
- Cedarwood Reserve, 206 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Bower Park, 339 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Cockayne Reserve, 365 m to the edge · Regional · 6 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Wainoni Rd near Hampshire St, 169 m away · route 80
- Wainoni Rd near Hampshire St, 185 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 32 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 178 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 223 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 262 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avondale, 271 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 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
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 17 Mar 2026 large branch on walkway
Fallen Tree, 24 Oct 2025 Fallen limbs are located on the walk way of Anzac drive between Wainoni road and New Brighton Road. Not Besant Place.
Pavement - Damaged, 10 Nov 2024 The shared cycle and walking track is rutted with uplifted asphalt creating tripping hazards for the elderly walking their dogs and the unev
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Mar 2024 Rubbish .. more of it
Graffiti, 26 Dec 2023 Graffiti on walkway next to Anzac Drive
Elsewhere on Besant Place
- 1 Besant Place, 3 reports
- 22 Besant Place, 2 reports
- 2 Besant Place, 2 reports
- 11 Besant Place, 2 reports
- 3 Besant Place, 1 report
- 24 Besant Place, 1 report
- 23 Besant Place, 1 report
- 19 Besant Place, 1 report
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.
Besant Place, 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
5 council reports on record since December 2023, most often fallen tree (2), pavement - damaged (1), graffiti (1).
Avondale, Christchurch, on Besant Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ripene Ma, 187 m to its edge.