# 52 Retreat Road, Avonside

4 reports on record since February 2024 · 4 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/avonside/52-retreat-road

## What gets reported here
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/problems/water-leaks), 1
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/problems/footpaths), 1
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/problems/trees), 1
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/problems/dumped-rubbish), 1

## Reported here
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/report/5530764), 10 Dec 2024
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/5126508), 11 Sept 2024
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/report/4485779), 1 Apr 2024
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/4287830), 15 Feb 2024

## Photographed here (4 on record)
- [Fallen Tree](https://www.chch.live/report/5530764), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05530764/public/1_he8gi4mabm1.jpg
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/5126508), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05126508/public/1_wb3ptyb2ih9v.jpg
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/report/4485779), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04485779/public/1_2egnqmn7weoa.jpg
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/4287830), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04287830/public/1_7qppsgasae8k.jpg

[More photographs on the Avonside wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=avonside)

## Also reported on Retreat Road
- [11 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/11-retreat-road), 80 reports
- [1 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/1-retreat-road), 34 reports
- [6 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/6-retreat-road), 19 reports
- [13 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/13-retreat-road), 17 reports
- [79 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/79-retreat-road), 15 reports
- [67A Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/67a-retreat-road), 15 reports
- [58 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/58-retreat-road), 15 reports
- [31 Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/avonside/31-retreat-road), 14 reports
- [Retreat Road, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/avonside/retreat-road)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5217&lon=172.6649&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5217&lon=172.6649&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5217&lon=172.6649&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [Wilding Park Tennis Centre](https://www.chch.live/business/wilding-park-tennis-centre-christchurch), 397 m away · Sports centres

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- Woodham Rd near Patten St, 382 m away · [the Orbiter (clockwise)](https://www.chch.live/buses/oc)
- Woodham Rd near Brittan St, 402 m away · [the Orbiter (anticlockwise)](https://www.chch.live/buses/oa)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Linwood North School](https://www.chch.live/school/3415-linwood-north-school), Primary, years 1–6, in force from May 2017
- [Te Aratai College (Year 7&8)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-7-8), Secondary, years 9–13, in force from Jan 2021
- [St Francis of Assisi Catholic School](https://www.chch.live/school/738-st-francis-of-assisi-catholic-school), Primary, years 1–8, in force from Jan 2027
- [Te Aratai College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-9-15), Secondary, years 9–13, in force from Jan 2021
- [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2026

## Bin day (Thursdays)

Bins go out Thursday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week One
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week One

This address is on the council’s Week One calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### [What the ground is](https://www.chch.live/ground)
- **Up to 100% chance of moderate-to-severe land damage**, [Liquefaction](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · Across 30 modelled earthquake scenarios: 37% average likelihood of moderate-to-severe land damage, 100% in the worst modelled scenario.
- **Liquefaction was mapped here after the September 2010 earthquake**, [Liquefied in September 2010](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · The survey recorded this as certain. Mapped from aerial imagery and site visits after the event, this is a record of what happened, not a model of what might.
- **In the residential red zone**, [Residential red zone](https://www.chch.live/redzone) · Land repair would be prolonged and uneconomic. Land here was zoned after the 2010-11 earthquakes and almost all of it has since been cleared.

### Water
- **Inside the modelled 10-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 10 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 10 Year · A 10-year event is one expected about once a decade, not a rare one.
- **Inside the modelled 50-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 50 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 50 Year
- **Inside the modelled 200-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 200 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Avon catchment · 200 Year · climate change modelled to 2123
- **Blue tsunami evacuation zone**, [Tsunami evacuation](https://www.chch.live/tsunami) · Evacuate zone after long or strong earthquake or in any official advisory or warning of greater than 0.3m wave height at coast _Zone includes sea, rivers, beaches, lagoons and estuaries._

### [Rules on this land](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- **Christchurch / Ōtautahi Clean Air Zone**, [Clean air zone](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Open fires and older woodburners are restricted here under the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. A burner installed before 2001 cannot be replaced like for like.
- **In the Christchurch Airshed**, [Gazetted airshed](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A gazetted airshed is the area the national air quality standard is measured over, the 24-hour PM10 average that this one is allowed to breach once a year. _Zone A_
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Areas of high deprivation**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Freeze on the issue of new off-licences, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences a set distance of this site.

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Retreat Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=retreat-road&suburb=avonside)

## 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 →](https://www.chch.live/avonside#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Burwood ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/burwood), the [Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/coastal-burwood-linwood) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## The green nearby
- [Retreat Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/957-retreat-reserve), 151 m to the edge
- [Avon Riverbank True Right](https://www.chch.live/park/1890-avon-riverbank-true-right), 226 m to the edge · 11 ha
- [Avebury Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1019-avebury-park), 355 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 8 pieces
- [Woodham Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1540-woodham-park), 496 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 22 pieces

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Avonside](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-54-avonside), 221 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avonside](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-50-dallington), 272 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avonside](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-52-richmond), 340 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avonside](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-37-richmond), 369 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Avonside](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-62-christchurch), 388 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 52 Retreat Road?**

4 council reports on record since February 2024, most often water leak (1), pavement - damaged (1), fallen tree (1).

**What school is 52 Retreat Road zoned for?**

[Linwood North School](https://www.chch.live/school/3415-linwood-north-school), [Te Aratai College (Year 7&8)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-7-8), [St Francis of Assisi Catholic School](https://www.chch.live/school/738-st-francis-of-assisi-catholic-school), [Te Aratai College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-9-15) and [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), and inside the region-wide zone of Hagley Community College, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.52173290443678,172.66492686230796)

**Which suburb is 52 Retreat Road in?**

Avonside, Christchurch, on [Retreat Road](https://www.chch.live/street/avonside/retreat-road).

**What stood at 52 Retreat Road before?**

Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, [the record around this ground →](https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.52173290443678&lon=172.66492686230796)

**What is the nearest park to 52 Retreat Road?**

[Retreat Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/957-retreat-reserve), 151 m to its edge.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=avonside&address=52-retreat-road · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Avonside&street=retreat-road
