422 Wairakei Road
3 council reports since August 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 536 Wairakei Road, 24 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
- Nepal Reserve, 226 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 22 pieces
- Twyford Reserve, 306 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Grant Armstrong Park, 328 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
- Kendal Reserve, 425 m to the edge · playground, 55 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- npd, 300 m away · Petrol stations
- Westpark Chapel, 357 m away · Funeral directors
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Wairakei Rd near Charlcott St, 24 m away · route 8
- Wairakei Rd near Charlcott St, 28 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 150 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 324 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 353 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Pothole, 2
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
- Damaged Road, 24 Sept 2026
Driving from Charlcott St turning left into Wairakei Road there has been for several months severe corrigations on the road surface.
Pothole, 23 Sept 2026 Group of pot holes at entrance to charlcott st on Wairakei Road that have been patched a few times. needs section cut out and re sealed in p
Pothole, 19 Aug 2025 A number of small potholes on the cnr Charlcott and Wairakei roads.
Elsewhere on Wairakei Road
- 536 Wairakei Road, 24 reports
- 656 Wairakei Road, 22 reports
- 490 Wairakei Road, 13 reports
- 442 Wairakei Road, 11 reports
- 319 Wairakei Road, 8 reports
- 379 Wairakei Road, 7 reports
- 330 Wairakei Road, 7 reports
- 585E Wairakei Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 89 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 25 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Harewood 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 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 August 2025, most often pothole (2), damaged road (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Wairakei Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Nepal Reserve, 226 m to its edge, 4 ha.

