61 Merrin Street
5 council reports since July 2023, 4 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, 207 m to the edge
- Greendale Reserve, 263 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Westgrove Park, 314 m to the edge · playground, 12 pieces
- Merrin Reserve, 415 m to the edge
- Briar Reserve, 420 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, 41 m away · Malls
- Bakers Delight Avonhead, 41 m away · Business
- Subway Avonhead Mall, 52 m away · Fast food
- Stonebaked Bakehouse - Avonhead, 55 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Road, 20 Jul 2025 Bus stop (across from avonhead mall services 3 and 125) curb and road is damaged been like this for a while from memory there was spray pain
Damaged Street Sign, 15 Nov 2024 Damaged jeep left sign, speed hump sign and 2 give way signs they are all twisted, I believe most of the signs on this new roundabout have s
Water Leak, 23 Sept 2024
Trees - General, 24 Jul 2024 This broken branch has been hanging dangerously for weeks. 2nd tree from roundabout heading towards Yaldhurst
- Poles and Signage - General, 11 Jul 2023
Elsewhere on Merrin Street
- 2 Merrin Street, 6 reports
- 95 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
- 62 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
5 council reports on record since July 2023, most often water leak (1), trees - general (1), poles and signage - general (1).
Avonhead, Christchurch, on Merrin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cricklewood Reserve, 207 m to its edge.



