289 Avonhead Road
2 council reports since December 2023, 2 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, 258 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Burnside Park, 268 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 329 m to the edge
- Greendale Reserve, 412 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Burnside Bowling Club, 367 m away · Clubs
- Black and White Coffee Cartel, 374 m away · Cafés
- Cafe Euro, 377 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, 201 m away · route 130
- Merrin St near Farndale Pl, 207 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
Abandoned Vehicle, 4 Aug 2025 3 weeks parked on road.
Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Dec 2023 Path is now to narrow for push chair / wheelchair due to oversized agapanthus plants. You can see where you have to go off road all the tim
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
2 council reports on record since December 2023, most often overgrown vegetation (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Avonhead Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bullock Reserve, 258 m to its edge.