14A Merrin Street
2 council reports since December 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Merrin Street, 6 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
- Greendale Reserve, 279 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 340 m to the edge
- Bullock Reserve, 361 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Burnside Park, 362 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Black and White Coffee Cartel, 247 m away · Cafés
- Cafe Euro, 249 m away · Cafés
- Merrin Street Brewery Bar, 316 m away · Bars & pubs
- Green Stripes, 318 m away · Fashion Accessories
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Merrin St near Farndale Pl, 79 m away · route 130
- Grahams Rd near Powell Cres, 305 m away · route 130
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, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Avonhead ran about $596 a week, $46 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 30 Mar 2025 Cracked kerbing at the base of power pole and above sump. This is around the corner from another power pole with the same issue previously
Graffiti, 29 Dec 2023
Elsewhere on Merrin Street
- 2 Merrin Street, 6 reports
- 95 Merrin Street, 5 reports
- 61 Merrin Street, 5 reports
- 41 Merrin Street, 5 reports
- 39 Merrin Street, 5 reports
- 98 Merrin Street, 4 reports
- 40A Merrin Street, 4 reports
- 74 Merrin Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Merrin Street in 29 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Waimairi ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Merrin Street, the whole record → · Everything about Avonhead → · 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
2 council reports on record since December 2023, most often pavement - damaged (1), graffiti (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Merrin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greendale Reserve, 279 m to its edge.

