839 Avonside Drive

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 Park, 19 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 37 pieces
• Avon Riverbank True Left, 35 m to the edge · 6 ha
• Porritt Park, 139 m to the edge · Sports ground · 11 ha
• Halberg Reserve, 362 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
• Bickerton Reserve, 457 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

• Avon Park Bowling Club, 98 m away · Clubs

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

The bus nearby

• Wainoni Rd near Pannell Ave, 382 m away · route 80
• Wainoni Rd near Pannell Ave, 396 m away · route 80

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

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Avonside, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Avonside, 39 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Avonside, 109 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Avonside, 389 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Planted by Dr Keith Turner / on 3 December 2006, 172 m away · Planted by Dr Keith Turner / on 3 December 2006 / (Meridian Energy logo) · 2017
• Avon Park plaque, 210 m away · 2024
• This Footbridge Was Opened in May 2022, 243 m away · This footbridge was opened in May 2022 / Funded by the Christchurch Earthquake Appeal Trus · 2023

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

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 2
• Dumped Rubbish, 2
• Water General, 1
• Litter, 1
• Hazard, vehicle, 1
• Graffiti, 1

Photographed here 9 on record

more photographs
on the Avonside wall →

What’s on record

• Facility - General Request, 11 May 2026 Security fence damage
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 26 Apr 2026 Graffiti on bridge
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 20 Mar 2026 Graffiti on bridge
• Litter, 2 Nov 2025 Rubbish in river
• Dumped Rubbish, 1 Nov 2025 Rubbish left by wait baiters
• Water General, 17 Oct 2025 Whitebait nets up and unattended. Please remove
• General Request, 15 Oct 2025 White baiting nets left unattended in river. Regulations state this is not allowed - you can’t leave nets up and hikoi away. Please remove
• Hazard, vehicle, 3 Oct 2025 Whitebaiters are driving along the stop bank. ideally a concrete block could be placed to prevent this until the construction works are comp
• Dumped Rubbish, 2 Aug 2025 Dumped piece of roof iron in the Avon River
• Graffiti, 23 Mar 2017

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 crashes it names, each one →

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.