2 Merrin Street
6 council reports since February 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Merrin 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
- Bullock Reserve, 257 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Burnside Park, 339 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Greendale Reserve, 358 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 380 m to the edge
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, 351 m away · Cafés
- Cafe Euro, 353 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Merrin St near Farndale Pl, 183 m away · route 130
- Grahams Rd near Powell Cres, 201 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 3 Jul 2025 bent safety bars, same thing at another location same roundabout
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 27 Nov 2024 Gutter clogged from leaves and debris from road, caught due to the upgraded roundabout design… Is a place street sweepers cannot reach or
Pavement - General, 11 Dec 2023 The new pedestrian rail has been hit by a vehicle and has been bent and the yellow paint has gone where vehicle hit it.
- Poles and Signage - General, 6 Feb 2023
Graffiti, 19 Feb 2021
Graffiti, 19 Feb 2021
Elsewhere on Merrin Street
- 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
- 62 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
6 council reports on record since February 2021, most often poles and signage - general (2), graffiti (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Merrin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bullock Reserve, 257 m to its edge.