281 Avonhead Road
8 council reports since August 2021, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 517 Avonhead Road, 21 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
- Bullock Reserve, 241 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Greendale Reserve, 358 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Burnside Park, 359 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 408 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, 367 m away · Cafés
- Cafe Euro, 368 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Grahams Rd near Powell Cres, 187 m away · route 130
- Merrin St near Farndale Pl, 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 21 May 2026 Wrecked
Roads - General, 9 Jan 2026 Someone has gone over the top of the barrier
Poles and Signage - General, 8 Jan 2026 Roundabout pedestrian yellow pole handrails keep getting hit by cars 2 are broken completely snapped and bent at the base please fix ??
Road Signage, 11 Mar 2025 Hi there, I’ve just opened my curtains and I’ve noticed this ginormous sign facing my house. How is it okay to block my window? Why isn’t i
Damaged Street Sign, 27 Nov 2024 I don’t know what category to put this under, But the grab bar has been run over, so is broken and not there, also a piece of it is sticki
Pavement - Damaged, 25 Oct 2024 Safety barrier knocked over
- Flooding, 28 Jun 2022
Blocked gutter on west side of Avonhead Road. Ponding mostly confined to side of road, approx 30 metres long; extends into main part of road
Roading/Streets, 25 Aug 2021 Damaged curb
Elsewhere on Avonhead Road
- 517 Avonhead Road, 21 reports
- 526–536 Avonhead Road, 10 reports
- 72 Avonhead Road, 9 reports
- 538–540 Avonhead Road, 9 reports
- 466 Avonhead Road, 9 reports
- 460A Avonhead Road, 9 reports
- 320A Avonhead Road, 9 reports
- 107 Avonhead Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Avonhead Road in 70 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 12 seriously hurt.
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.
Avonhead 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
8 council reports on record since August 2021, most often poles and signage - general (2), roads - general (1), roading/streets (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Avonhead Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bullock Reserve, 241 m to its edge.