28 Cowlishaw Street
2 council reports since February 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 71 Cowlishaw Street, 30 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED Substation and Setting, 11 Retreat Road (166m)
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
- Avon Riverbank True Right, 194 m to the edge · 11 ha
- Avebury Park, 282 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 8 pieces
- Retreat Reserve, 340 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
- Woodham Road Medical Centre, 260 m away · Business
- Woodham Road Pharmacy, 269 m away · Pharmacies
- Woodham Road Healthcare, 273 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Riverlution Cafe, 275 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Woodham Rd near Avonside Dr, 282 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Woodham Rd near Brittan St, 302 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 193 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 195 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 238 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 260 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 275 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 Avonside ran about $293 a week, $257 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 31 Jul 2026 This section needs to be locked.
General Request, 13 Feb 2025 Graffiti on power meter box. This is on the Cowlishaw Street, Avonside, Christchurch 8061 side. It is just inside the fenceline. Close to th
Elsewhere on Cowlishaw Street
- 71 Cowlishaw Street, 30 reports
- 14 Cowlishaw Street, 21 reports
- 48 Cowlishaw Street, 16 reports
- 12 Cowlishaw Street, 16 reports
- 79 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports
- 67 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports
- 22 Cowlishaw Street, 11 reports
- 7 Cowlishaw Street, 10 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Cowlishaw Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Cowlishaw Street, 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
2 council reports on record since February 2025, most often general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Avonside, Christchurch, on Cowlishaw Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED Substation and Setting.
Avon Riverbank True Right, 194 m to its edge, 11 ha.

