17 Shaftesbury Street
2 council reports since October 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1A Shaftesbury Street, 5 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, 172 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Brigadoon Reserve, 448 m to the edge
- Annandale Park, 467 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Countdown Avonhead, 361 m away · Supermarkets
- Woolworths, 369 m away · Supermarkets
- Siena Café, 380 m away · Cafés
- Sushi Time, 387 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Maidstone Rd near Highfield Pl, 364 m away · route 3
- Maidstone Rd near Radbrook St, 371 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Jun 2026 Dumped couch on side of the road.
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Oct 2025 Someone has dumped an old BBQ on the side of the road. Has been there for about two weeks.
Elsewhere on Shaftesbury Street
- 1A Shaftesbury Street, 5 reports
- 11 Shaftesbury Street, 4 reports
- 14A Shaftesbury Street, 3 reports
- 17A Shaftesbury Street, 2 reports
- 15A Shaftesbury Street, 2 reports
- 1 Shaftesbury Street, 2 reports
- 7 Shaftesbury Street, 1 report
- 18 Shaftesbury Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Shaftesbury Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Shaftesbury 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 October 2025, most often dumped rubbish (2).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Shaftesbury Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greendale Reserve, 172 m to its edge.

