5 Gainford Street
4 council reports since August 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Gainford 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
- Greendale Reserve, 181 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Brigadoon Reserve, 379 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
- Avonhead Surgery, 273 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Caltex, 328 m away · Petrol stations
- Countdown Avonhead, 332 m away · Supermarkets
- Woolworths, 345 m away · Supermarkets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Withells Rd near Apsley Dr, 293 m away · route 3, route 125
- Maidstone Rd near Colina St, 295 m away · route 3
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 14 Nov 2025 Well I've given up, first posted this 23rd September and this is the 4th time I'll be posting! I received an email from the council asking i
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 26 Sept 2025 I have already sent this and the council said it was tree roots causing a dip and holding water but it hasn't rained and there's water in fr
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 28 Aug 2025 Sent this last time no response from council. There is water at the front of our driveway and also neighbours. It hasn't been raining
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 3 Aug 2025 Outside our driveway and next-door neighbours place there's always water pooling even when it hasn't been raining.
Elsewhere on Gainford Street
- 29 Gainford Street, 3 reports
- 28E Gainford Street, 2 reports
- 17 Gainford Street, 2 reports
- 7 Gainford Street, 1 report
- 2E Gainford Street, 1 report
- 28 Gainford Street, 1 report
- 26 Gainford Street, 1 report
- 22 Gainford Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Gainford Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Gainford 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
4 council reports on record since August 2025, most often street gutters / storm water (4).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Gainford Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greendale Reserve, 181 m to its edge.