154 Memorial Avenue
9 council reports since September 2023, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 179 Memorial Avenue, 21 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
- Westburn Reserve, 263 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 12 pieces
- Jellie Park, 292 m to the edge · Sports ground · 13 ha · playground, 60 pieces
- Flay Park, 459 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha
- Ryeland Reserve, 473 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
- Lower Courts, 400 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 20 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 358 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 367 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 430 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 Burnside ran about $641 a week, $91 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 4
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Graffiti somewhere else, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Light, 1
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
- Pavement - Damaged, 1 Sept 2025
Nearly tripped over and hurt myself, no one could tell me where to go while I was trying to cross Memorial Ave, big machine with pipe in way
General Request, 18 Feb 2025 I'm not sure whose asset this is - the traffic signal box adjacent was recently repainted to cover tagging but this one was not so unsure if
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 31 Jan 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 14 Jan 2025 On Utility cabinet
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Jan 2025 Graffiti on traffic light control box.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 21 Dec 2024 Graffiti all over two cabinets outside the Aurora Centre at Burnside High School
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 12 Oct 2024 Graffiti on traffic light pole adjacent to Burnside high school.
Damaged Street Light, 31 Dec 2023 northeast memorial Ave traffic light facing west, shroud on yellow lamp is loose
- Graffiti, 23 Sept 2023
Elsewhere on Memorial Avenue
- 179 Memorial Avenue, 21 reports
- 363 Memorial Avenue, 17 reports
- 324 Memorial Avenue, 12 reports
- 475 Memorial Avenue, 11 reports
- 312A Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 240 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 233 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 235 Memorial Avenue, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Memorial Avenue in 161 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 33 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.
Memorial Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Burnside → · 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
9 council reports on record since September 2023, most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (4), pavement - damaged (1), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Memorial Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Westburn Reserve, 263 m to its edge, 1 ha.






