53 Wayside Avenue
5 council reports since August 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 36 Wayside Avenue, 22 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
- Derwent Reserve, 262 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Kendal Reserve, 310 m to the edge · playground, 55 pieces
- Halifax Reserve, 476 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.
The civic shelf nearby
- Waimairi Cemetery, 44 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The bus nearby
- Cranbrook Ave near Grahams Rd, 178 m away · route 120
- Cranbrook Ave near Grahams Rd, 193 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 349 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 461 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Rest‑a‑while / This Seat Was Donated by Rita, 119 m away ·
Rest‑A‑While / This seat was donated by Rita (illegible) / in loving memory of her Mother
· 2013
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
- Vandalism - General, 2
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 19 Oct 2025 Covers half the footpath
Hazard, vehicle, 30 Jul 2025 This Van has been parked here for a few weeks, and is causing major disruption to viewing oncoming traffic from the left at this intersectio
- Vandalism - General, 29 Sept 2023
General Request, 16 Aug 2022 Padlock missing in waimairi cementry 3rd gate.
Vandalism - General, 5 Aug 2022 Missing padlock at one of the gates
Elsewhere on Wayside Avenue
- 36 Wayside Avenue, 22 reports
- 40 Wayside Avenue, 4 reports
- 35 Wayside Avenue, 3 reports
- 34 Wayside Avenue, 3 reports
- 56 Wayside Avenue, 2 reports
- 5 Wayside Avenue, 2 reports
- 43 Wayside Avenue, 2 reports
- 4 Wayside Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wayside Avenue in 5 crashes 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.
Wayside 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
5 council reports on record since August 2022, most often vandalism - general (2), overgrown vegetation (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Wayside Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Derwent Reserve, 262 m to its edge.



