17 Highbury Place
3 council reports since May 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Highbury Place.
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
- Woodham Park, 144 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 22 pieces
- Retreat Reserve, 182 m to the edge
- Avon Riverbank True Right, 230 m to the edge · 11 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Wilding Park Tennis Centre, 138 m away · Sports centres
- Tennis Canterbury, 182 m away · Clubs
- Kai Means Food, 360 m away · Cafés
- Glamour Nail & Eyelashes, 366 m away · Beauty
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Woodham Rd near Tancred St, 270 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Woodham Rd near Tancred St, 282 m away · the Orbiter
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 239 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 241 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 296 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Woodham Park Opened 21st Nov, 216 m away ·
WOODHAM PARK OPENED 21ST NOV. 1942 E.H. ANDREWS ESQ. MAYOR J.N. CLARKE ESQ. CHAIRMAN PARKS
· 2003 - Woodham Park / Opened 21st Nov, 217 m away ·
WOODHAM PARK / OPENED 21ST NOV. 1942 / E. H. ANDREWS ESQ. / MAYOR / J. N. CLARKE ESQ. / CH
· 2009 - In Loving Memory of Geof Pearce, 235 m away ·
In Loving Memory of GEOF PEARCE (text partially unclear)
· 2005
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Avonside ran about $293 a week, $257 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
- Hazard, vehicle, 3 Jul 2026
I would like to report what appears to be a significant road surface defect on Waltham Road. The defect is in the right-hand lane of Waltha
Dumped Rubbish, 7 Feb 2025 Carpet and tyres plus heater dumped on number 19 road curb
Dumped Rubbish, 4 May 2024 Unwanted rubbish
Elsewhere on Highbury Place
- 21 Highbury Place, 3 reports
- 8 Highbury Place, 2 reports
- 15 Highbury Place, 2 reports
- 10 Highbury Place, 2 reports
- 9 Highbury Place, 1 report
- 6 Highbury Place, 1 report
- 23 Highbury Place, 1 report
- 16 Highbury Place, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Burwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Highbury Place, the whole record → · Everything about Avonside → · 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
3 council reports on record since May 2024, most often dumped rubbish (2), hazard, vehicle (1).
Avonside, Christchurch, on Highbury Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Woodham Park, 144 m to its edge, 2 ha.