289B Wairakei Road
2 council reports since September 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 291 Wairakei Road, 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
- Derwent Reserve, 254 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Halifax Reserve, 427 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Edgar Macintosh Park, 463 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 58 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Wairakei Wine & Spirits, 2 m away · Bottle stores
- Sloanes, 6 m away · Hairdressers
- Liquorland Wairakei Road, 7 m away · Bottle stores
- Wairakei Road Shoe Outlet, 8 m away · Clothing
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Wairakei Rd near Greers Rd, 91 m away · route 8
- Greers Rd near Brookside Tce, 94 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Bryndwr, 51 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bryndwr, 55 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bryndwr, 470 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Bryndwr 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Aug 2026 Graffiti on grey metal fence by LBJ bistro and bar near Wairakei school
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Sept 2025 This is not the first time, she has done it again.
Elsewhere on Wairakei Road
- 291 Wairakei Road, 19 reports
- 216 Wairakei Road, 15 reports
- 169 Wairakei Road, 12 reports
- 100 Wairakei Road, 11 reports
- 144 Wairakei Road, 10 reports
- 204 Wairakei Road, 9 reports
- 160 Wairakei Road, 9 reports
- 131 Wairakei Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 77 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 16 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Fendalton 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.
Wairakei Road, the whole record → · Everything about Bryndwr → · 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
2 council reports on record since September 2025, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Bryndwr, Christchurch, on Wairakei Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Derwent Reserve, 254 m to its edge.

