187 Withells Road
2 council reports since December 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 88 Withells Road, 13 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
- Cricklewood Reserve, 218 m to the edge
- Greendale Reserve, 274 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Apsley Landscape Reserve, 420 m to the edge
- Hyde Park, 470 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
- Avonhead Park, 472 m to the edge · Sports ground · 23 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Avonhead Surgery, 38 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Caltex, 126 m away · Petrol stations
- Avonhead Vets, 134 m away · Vets
- Bakers Delight Avonhead, 225 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Withells Rd near Apsley Dr, 16 m away · route 3, route 125
- Withells Rd near Apsley Dr, 57 m away · route 3, route 125
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
Fallen Tree, 31 Dec 2025 Broken tree limb blocking footpath
Overgrown Vegetation, 22 Dec 2025 This tree is hanging very low over the path and you have to duck down to get under it. It needs to be trimmed back a lot.
Elsewhere on Withells Road
- 88 Withells Road, 13 reports
- 95 Withells Road, 12 reports
- 91 Withells Road, 12 reports
- 389 Withells Road, 9 reports
- 174 Withells Road, 8 reports
- 393 Withells Road, 7 reports
- 179 Withells Road, 7 reports
- 176 Withells Road, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Withells Road in 78 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 20 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.
Withells Road, 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 2025, most often overgrown vegetation (1), fallen tree (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Withells Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cricklewood Reserve, 218 m to its edge.

