520 Wairakei Road
2 council reports since March 2024, 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
- Nunweek Park, 22 m to the edge · Sports ground · 20 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Wairakei Reserve, 126 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Roydvale Reserve, 261 m to the edge
- Becmead Walkway, 291 m to the edge
- Hockey Park, 393 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
- Aminah's Bread & Butter Bakery, 23 m away · Fast food
- Get Connected Auto Electrical, 44 m away · Car repair
- Bainbridge Homes, 61 m away · Construction Company
- Argus Fire Protection, 65 m away · Safety Equipment
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, 27 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 426 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 480 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.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Pollution - Sediment, 21 Aug 2025 Diesel in stormwater stream. Nunweek Park by hockey fields.
Water Leak, 10 Mar 2024 Leaking fire hydrant
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
2 council reports on record since March 2024, most often water pollution - sediment (1), water leak (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Wairakei Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Nunweek Park, 22 m to its edge, 20 ha.