53 Nortons Road
5 council reports since January 2024, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 44A Nortons Road, 32 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
- Ferrier Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 28 pieces
- Staveley Reserve, 283 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Toorak Reserve, 334 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Corfe Reserve, 456 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Hop And Vine Distribution, 116 m away · Bottle stores
- Yaldy House, 354 m away · Guest houses
- Avonhead Garden Motel, 363 m away · Motels
- Cafe 186, 367 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Staveley St near Nortons Rd, 386 m away · route 130
- Yaldhurst Rd near Racecourse Rd, 395 m away · route 86, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonhead, 376 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonhead, 438 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Apr 2026 this is a pothole in the footpath that my acc supplied knee scooter dropped into causing an immediate crash.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 30 Dec 2024 Ferrier pk rubbish bin
Dumped Rubbish, 6 Dec 2024
Facility - General Request, 3 Dec 2024 The signage is really poor and damaged and needs updating , Pathways are still overgrown and Damaged in meany places as well as to narrow fo
Overgrown Vegetation, 31 Jan 2024 The tree needs the lower sprouts removed so children are able to see oncoming traffic while waiting at the at the school crossing. Children
Elsewhere on Nortons Road
- 44A Nortons Road, 32 reports
- 46 Nortons Road, 25 reports
- 81 Nortons Road, 17 reports
- 44 Nortons Road, 14 reports
- 95 Nortons Road, 12 reports
- 47 Nortons Road, 9 reports
- 45 Nortons Road, 9 reports
- 56 Nortons Road, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Nortons Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 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.
Nortons 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
5 council reports on record since January 2024, most often pavement - damaged (1), overgrown vegetation (1), graffiti on a playground or in a park (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Nortons Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ferrier Park, the address is inside it, 3 ha.




