538 Avonside Drive
3 council reports since October 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 244/240 Avonside Drive, 56 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
- Avon Riverbank True Right, 15 m to the edge · 11 ha
- Sullivan Park, 188 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Avon Riverbank True Left, 387 m to the edge · 6 ha
- Avon Park, 444 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 37 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 4 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 55 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
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 1
- General Request, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 17 Jan 2026 Another asshole scribbling where they shouldn’t and there’s another one here as well, and I may have seen the guy that have done it because
- General Request, 13 Oct 2025
There needs to be more lighting on the path near the new footbridge and by the Medway bridge. It’s dangerous for early morning walkers
Facility - General Request, 4 Oct 2025 Someone has cut the rope around the new garden by the new bridge, or your fixings have come out as I've seen a few ppl walking through over
Elsewhere on Avonside Drive
- 244/240 Avonside Drive, 56 reports
- 800 Avonside Drive, 43 reports
- 746 Avonside Drive, 34 reports
- 774 Avonside Drive, 31 reports
- 658 Avonside Drive, 27 reports
- 740 Avonside Drive, 23 reports
- 836 Avonside Drive, 21 reports
- 240 Avonside Drive, 20 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Avonside Drive in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Avonside Drive, 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 October 2025, most often graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge (1), general request (1), facility - general request (1).
Avonside, Christchurch, on Avonside Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Avon Riverbank True Right, 15 m to its edge, 11 ha.