129A Farrington Avenue
6 council reports since September 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 111 Farrington Avenue, 19 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
- Farrington Reserve, 58 m to the edge
- Bishopdale Mall Reserve, 120 m to the edge · playground, 19 pieces
- Bishopdale Park, 180 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 117 pieces
- Armitage Reserve, 266 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Grant Armstrong Park, 489 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Ōrauwhata: Bishopdale Library And Community Centre, 141 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Jolly Octopus Tattoos, 12 m away · Tattoo & piercing
- Harcourts, 16 m away · Real estate
- Foate Optometrists, 19 m away · Optometrists
- Farrington Dairy, 31 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bishopdale Mall (Harewood Rd), 248 m away · route 27, route 125
- Bishopdale Mall (Harewood Rd), 263 m away · route 27, route 125
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Bishopdale, 104 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bishopdale, 191 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bishopdale, 443 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- åœrauwahata / Sculptor – Tim Wraight / July 2017, 140 m away ·
ÅŒrauwahata / Sculptor – Tim Wraight / July 2017
· 2017
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 Bishopdale ran about $599 a week, $49 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Sign, 14 Mar 2025 Broken street sign
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Nov 2024 Welcome sign to mall by dairy
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 15 Jan 2024 Overgrown stormwater grate will eventually become blocked
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 3 Mar 2023
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 29 Sept 2022
Graffiti, 8 Sept 2022 Advertisement board beside harcourts.
Elsewhere on Farrington Avenue
- 111 Farrington Avenue, 19 reports
- 129 Farrington Avenue, 18 reports
- 127 Farrington Avenue, 12 reports
- 119 Farrington Avenue, 10 reports
- 22 Farrington Avenue, 6 reports
- 12 Farrington Avenue, 6 reports
- 115 Farrington Avenue, 6 reports
- 114 Farrington Avenue, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Farrington Avenue in 35 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Harewood ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Farrington Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Bishopdale → · 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
6 council reports on record since September 2022, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), street gutters / storm water (1), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Bishopdale, Christchurch, on Farrington Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Farrington Reserve, 58 m to its edge.



