240 Memorial Avenue
10 council reports since June 2023, 9 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
- Flay Park, 107 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha
- Thurleston Reserve, 168 m to the edge
- Westburn Reserve, 201 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 12 pieces
- Grahams Road Berms, 228 m to the edge
- Witbrock Reserve, 242 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Grahams Road Surgery, 187 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Memorial Ave near Grahams Rd, 47 m away · route 29
- Memorial Ave near Grahams Rd, 89 m away · route 29
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 264 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 277 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 311 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 416 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 Burnside ran about $641 a week, $91 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 2 Jun 2026 Red traffic light not working
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 10 Jan 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Jan 2025 Graffiti on traffic light control box.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 23 Dec 2024
Flooding, 20 Dec 2024 Blocked drain on the Grahams Road/ Memorial Ave corner is creating surface flooding. Dangerous to drivers.
Graffiti somewhere else, 6 Dec 2024 On traffic light control box
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 16 Nov 2024
Pavement - General, 13 Aug 2024 Is the signage, shown in the photos, at 240 Memorial Ave (cnr Graham's Rd) allowed under Christchurch bylaws? The construction company sign
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Aug 2024 Sign on street corner
- Graffiti, 14 Jun 2023
Elsewhere on Memorial Avenue
- 179 Memorial Avenue, 21 reports
- 363 Memorial Avenue, 17 reports
- 324 Memorial Avenue, 12 reports
- 475 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 312A Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 233 Memorial Avenue, 10 reports
- 235 Memorial Avenue, 9 reports
- 173 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 Waimairi 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
10 council reports on record since June 2023, most often graffiti somewhere else (3), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (3), traffic signals (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Memorial Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Flay Park, 107 m to its edge, 1 ha.








