35 Sir William Pickering Drive
5 council reports since July 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 33 Sir William Pickering Drive, 8 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
- Avice Hill Reserve, 99 m to the edge · Botanic
- Lavendula Reserve, 117 m to the edge
- Stableford Reserve, 196 m to the edge
- Burnside Park, 229 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Coringa Reserve, 341 m to the edge · playground, 22 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Hawksbury Community Living Trust, 76 m away · Association
- Avice Hill Arts and Craft Centre, 106 m away · Venues & events
- Nevis Bluff, 106 m away · Bottle stores
- 43 Degrees Cafe, 125 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Memorial Ave near Avice Hill Reserve, 86 m away · route 3, route 29, route 125
- Memorial Ave near Avice Hill Reserve, 98 m away · route 3, route 29, route 125
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, 257 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Planted on 2nd December 1994 by Mrs Avice Hill, 171 m away ·
PLANTED ON 2ND DECEMBER 1994 BY MRS AVICE HILL TO COMMEMORATE THE CENTENARY OF THE ORIGINA
· 2008 - Canterbury Herb Society, 172 m away ·
CANTERBURY HERB SOCIETY
· 2008
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 Burnside ran about $641 a week, $91 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 2
- Roading/Streets, 2
- Pothole, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 23 Jul 2025 Company left sprinklers on in winter, water is spread over footpath and freezing temperatures are creating a very slippery dangerous footpat
- Water Leak, 4 Mar 2023
Pothole, 27 Jul 2022
Roading/Streets, 13 Jul 2022 Pot hole
Roading/Streets, 13 Jul 2022 Pot hole
Elsewhere on Sir William Pickering Drive
- 33 Sir William Pickering Drive, 8 reports
- 15 Sir William Pickering Drive, 8 reports
- 9 Sir William Pickering Drive, 7 reports
- 6A Sir William Pickering Drive, 5 reports
- 10 Sir William Pickering Drive, 4 reports
- 49 Sir William Pickering Drive, 3 reports
- 4/49 Sir William Pickering Drive, 2 reports
- 20 Sir William Pickering Drive, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sir William Pickering Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Sir William Pickering Drive, 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
5 council reports on record since July 2022, most often water leak (2), roading/streets (2), pothole (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Sir William Pickering Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Avice Hill Reserve, 99 m to its edge.



