121 Birdwood Avenue

On the register here

• Former Beckenham Library and Setting, 65 Sandwich Road (231m)

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

• Waimea Reserve, 198 m to the edge
• Beckenham Park, 224 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 34 pieces
• Heathcote Riverbank True Left, 315 m to the edge · 4 ha
• Palatine Reserve, 375 m to the edge · playground, 38 pieces
• Farnley Reserve, 397 m to the edge

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf nearby

• Beckenham Service Centre, 478 m away · Service centre
• South Christchurch Library, 491 m away · Library

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• Hettie’s Rock & Crystal Shop, 96 m away · Esoteric
• The Birdwood Eatery, 130 m away · Cafés
• The Birdwood Pizzeria, 134 m away · Restaurants
• The Birdwood Eatery & Pizzeria, 146 m away · Restaurants

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

The bus nearby

• Colombo St near Thorrington Rd, 436 m away · route 1
• Centaurus Rd near Austin Kirk Ln, 450 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)

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

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 111 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 179 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 219 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 296 m to the line · walk · bike

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

Renting nearby

new bonds in Beckenham ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Water Leak, 4
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 2
• Road Signage, 1
• Poles and Signage - General, 1
• Flooding, 1

Photographed here 9 on record

more photographs
on the Beckenham wall →

What’s on record

• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 18 Feb 2026 Clogged drain is causing localised flooding
• Flooding, 18 Feb 2025 Kia ora, Most of the surface flooding around here cleared really quickly, but there's still a big lagoon at this corner. Many thanks for you
• Poles and Signage - General, 17 Sept 2024 Flooding sign in gutter. Was never picked up after flooding some months ago.
• Road Signage, 14 Sept 2024 Discarded sign has been lying here for over a month
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 21 May 2024 Storm water not draining
• Water Leak, 5 May 2024 Lots of water coming out of Toby
• Water Leak, 4 May 2024 Water pouring out of mains
• Water Leak, 4 May 2024 Toby is badly leaking
• Water Leak, 2 May 2024

Elsewhere on Birdwood Avenue

• 82 Birdwood Avenue, 29 reports
• 3 Birdwood Avenue, 21 reports
• 91 Birdwood Avenue, 11 reports
• 133 Birdwood Avenue, 10 reports
• 77 Birdwood Avenue, 8 reports
• 71 Birdwood Avenue, 8 reports
• 109 Birdwood Avenue, 8 reports
• 72 Birdwood Avenue, 7 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Birdwood Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.