29 Rubens Place
3 council reports since April 2019, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 12 Rubens Place, 7 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, 100 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha
- Parkham Reserve, 178 m to the edge
- Grahams Road Berms, 198 m to the edge
- Witbrock Reserve, 373 m to the edge
- Thurleston Reserve, 431 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Waimairi Cemetery, 353 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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, 144 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 202 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 379 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 428 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 453 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 18 Aug 2026 Water meter box is full of water. I also think there is another leak further up the driveway on that same side at number 27
Rubbish and Bins - General, 3 Jan 2026 Our red bin wasn’t emptied this morning while everyone else’s was. It wasn’t overfull and the lid was properly closed so I don’t know what h
Water Supply, 16 Apr 2019
It is situated at 27 Rubens place and the top of the tap is missing the plumber came out and told us
Elsewhere on Rubens Place
- 12 Rubens Place, 7 reports
- 4 Rubens Place, 4 reports
- 6B Rubens Place, 3 reports
- 14 Rubens Place, 3 reports
- 10 Rubens Place, 2 reports
- 4B Rubens Place, 1 report
- 27 Rubens Place, 1 report
- 24B Rubens Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rubens Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Rubens Place, 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
3 council reports on record since April 2019, most often water supply (1), water leak (1), rubbish and bins - general (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Rubens Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Flay Park, 100 m to its edge, 1 ha.

