38 Martin Avenue
5 council reports since June 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 96 Martin Avenue, 7 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Beckenham Library and Setting, 65 Sandwich Road (233m)
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, 213 m to the edge
- Beckenham Park, 234 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 34 pieces
- Heathcote Riverbank True Left, 307 m to the edge · 4 ha
- Palatine Reserve, 365 m to the edge · playground, 38 pieces
- Farnley Reserve, 383 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, 492 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Hettie’s Rock & Crystal Shop, 80 m away · Esoteric
- The Birdwood Eatery, 114 m away · Cafés
- The Birdwood Pizzeria, 119 m away · Restaurants
- The Birdwood Eatery & Pizzeria, 130 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Centaurus Rd near Austin Kirk Ln, 439 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Colombo St near Thorrington Rd, 441 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 12 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 97 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 192 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 232 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 294 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 Beckenham ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 29 Jun 2026 a build up of leaves and debris blocking the drain
- Flooding, 1 May 2025
Surface flooding across the entire Road corner of Martin and Birdwood
- Roads - General, 9 Aug 2023
Rubbish/Recycling, 30 Jun 2022 Been sitting here for weeks
Roading/Streets, 21 Jun 2022 Leftover TM gear
Elsewhere on Martin Avenue
- 96 Martin Avenue, 7 reports
- 21 Martin Avenue, 5 reports
- 60 Martin Avenue, 4 reports
- 36 Martin Avenue, 4 reports
- 17 Martin Avenue, 4 reports
- 9 Martin Avenue, 3 reports
- 80 Martin Avenue, 3 reports
- 71 Martin Avenue, 3 reports
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.
Martin Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Beckenham → · 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
5 council reports on record since June 2022, most often street gutters / storm water (1), rubbish/recycling (1), roads - general (1).
Beckenham, Christchurch, on Martin Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Beckenham Library and Setting.
Waimea Reserve, 213 m to its edge.