43–45 Merrin Street
1 council report since April 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Merrin Street, 6 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, 204 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 351 m to the edge
- Cricklewood Reserve, 383 m to the edge
- Westgrove Park, 446 m to the edge · playground, 12 pieces
- Burnside Park, 483 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
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, 36 m away · Cafés
- Cafe Euro, 40 m away · Cafés
- Merrin Street Brewery Bar, 107 m away · Bars & pubs
- Green Stripes, 114 m away · Fashion Accessories
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Merrin St near Withells Rd, 124 m away · route 130
- Merrin St near Farndale Pl, 134 m away · route 130
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 1 on record
What’s on record
Elsewhere on Merrin Street
- 2 Merrin Street, 6 reports
- 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
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
1 council report on record since April 2025, most often graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Merrin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greendale Reserve, 204 m to its edge.

