55 Avonhead Road
8 council reports since October 2016, 5 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
- Ferrier Park, 93 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 28 pieces
- Corfe Reserve, 303 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Staveley Reserve, 379 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Iona Reserve, 496 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Toorak Reserve, 497 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Bangladesh Club, 273 m away · Ngo
- Hop And Vine Distribution, 276 m away · Bottle stores
- Yaldy House, 305 m away · Guest houses
- Avonhead Garden Motel, 331 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Staveley St near Avonhead Rd, 367 m away · route 130
- Staveley St near Avonhead Rd, 381 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonhead, 285 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
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Street Cleaning, 11 Jun 2025 Large quantity of broken windscreen glass on side of road.
Graffiti somewhere else, 12 Oct 2024 Fence near Orion cabinet
Hazard, vehicle, 12 Aug 2024 Parking at peak afternoon traffic time opposite Avonhead School. Possibly a parent but can’t be sure.
Facility - General Request, 7 Feb 2024 Rubbish
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 1 Nov 2023
- Litter, 12 Sept 2023
- Roading/Streets, 10 Aug 2017
Potholes all up both sides of Avonhead Rd. Some have been there for over 5 week.
Parks, 6 Oct 2016
How come private vehicles of tradesmen can park on the grass at Ferrier Park - it seems with impunity? Why are they not using street parking
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 October 2016, most often street cleaning (1), rubbish and bins - general (1), roading/streets (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Avonhead Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ferrier Park, 93 m to its edge, 3 ha.



