694 Avonside Drive
2 council reports since February 2024, 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, 212 m to the edge · 11 ha
- Avon Park, 227 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Woodham Park, 329 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 22 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Woodham Rd near Ngarimu St, 440 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 2 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 453 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Avonside, 498 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
- This Landing / Was Opened in March 2022 / Funded, 144 m away ·
This landing / was opened in March 2022 / Funded by the / Christchurch Earthquake Appeal T
· 2021
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
Abandoned Vehicle, 24 Sept 2026 Broken car sitting on side of the road for ca 2 months
Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Feb 2024 Overgrown grass next to river bed. Fire hazard.
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 Linwood 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
2 council reports on record since February 2024, most often overgrown vegetation (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Avonside, Christchurch, on Avonside Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Avon Riverbank True Right, 212 m to its edge, 11 ha.

