56 Merrin Street
2 council reports since October 2017, 2 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
- Cricklewood Reserve, 251 m to the edge
- Greendale Reserve, 256 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Westgrove Park, 329 m to the edge · playground, 12 pieces
- Strathean Reserve, 387 m to the edge
- Briar Reserve, 413 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 Shopping Centre, 48 m away · Malls
- Subway Avonhead Mall, 49 m away · Fast food
- Piccadilly Bookshop Limited, 66 m away · Bookshops
- Andreas Florist & Gifts, 68 m away · Florists
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Withells Rd near Merrin St, 27 m away · route 3, route 125
- Merrin St near Withells Rd, 32 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
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 15 Feb 2025 Bus permanently parked in 120 minute bay causing obstruction to shopping centre's entrance
Graffiti, 30 Oct 2017
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
2 council reports on record since October 2017, most often hazard, vehicle (1), graffiti (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Merrin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cricklewood Reserve, 251 m to its edge.