22A Showgate Avenue
1 council report since February 2025, 1 carrying a photograph.
On the register here
- Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting, 165J Racecourse Road (186m)
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
- Showgate Reserve, 14 m to the edge
- Buchanans Reserve, 184 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Peebles Reserve, 200 m to the edge · playground, 40 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 306 m to the edge
- Kinross Reserve, 452 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Riccarton Park and Function Centre, 275 m away · Venues & events
- Riccarton Rotary Market, 292 m away · Marketplace
- Racecourse Riccarton, 363 m away · Venues & events
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 385 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 263 m away · route 130
- Racecourse Rd near O'briens Rd, 271 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Peebles Reserve plaque, 217 m away ·
Wigram Lions Club donated this seat / to the Christchurch community / in memory of (illegi
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 Broomfield ran about $600 a week, $50 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Accessibility, 12 Feb 2025 Can a path please be added through Showgate reserve between Showgate Avenue and the bike path? People walk through the reserve regularly, b
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Showgate Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Broomfield → · 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
1 council report on record since February 2025, most often accessibility (1).
Broomfield, Christchurch, on Showgate Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting.
Showgate Reserve, 14 m to its edge.