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Groynes dog exercise area adjacent to stream access area. Gate lock has been broken with bolt cutters, vandalism.
Coutts Island, Christchurch
427 council reports since July 2015, the 90th busiest suburb in the city. 320 photographs on record.
The record also holds 320 photographs· 4 parks· 1 track· 4 names on the map· 8.6% of the outline mapped liquefied· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 2% of the outline· ecological sites over 7% of the outline· landscape schedules over 13% of the outline· high flood hazard over 11% of the outline· noise overlays over 88% of the outline· setback strips over 13% of the outline· 8 remembered names on this ground· 7 drawn rules bind this ground· 1 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 3 parcels of made ground· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly possible· 5 council structures on the register· 29 recreation register records· 51 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 2 epicentres inside the outline· 5 injury crashes· 580 recorded victimisations· 4 businesses· the council’s fix times· 1 heritage place· 40 documents· 2 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
Rent: too few new bonds lodged here for Tenancy Services to publish a median this quarter, the last figure it released was about $595 a week, and it counts this under the much wider Kaiapoi South area, this locality sits inside it, so read the figure as the district’s.
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 9% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 4 parks and 1 track, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 69 reports in the year to 14 October 2026, the newest 5 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 1 October 2026, 7 reports in a single day.
As reported 320 on record
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Coutts Island
- Coutts Island enters the written record on 6 June 1860, “Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 06 June 1860)”, Papers Past.
- “Coutts Island” appears somewhere in 28 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: rubbish/recycling, 11 July 2015, at 251 Coutts Island Rd.
- Its busiest day on record was 1 October 2026, 7 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Coutts Island Road, reported on 123 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Harewood ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Road SignageCoutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road
Unable to read road sign due to be overgrown hedges covering it
Traffic SignalsCoutts Island War Memorial Reserve 101 Dickeys Road
very slow changing traffic controls on two open lanes causing unnecessary traffic delays
Reports per year up 26% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 467 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Coutts Island took 7 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 10 weeks or longer. 23 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 14 August 2021.
Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Emmanuel Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · Papanui High School · Pūtahi Belfast School · and 5 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 4
- GroynesRegional · 92 ha · playground, 153 pieces
- Waimakariri River Regional ParkRegional · 32 ha
- Dickeys Reserve11 ha
- Coutts Island War Memorial Reserve1 ha
Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here 1
- Combined Mtb And Walk2.6 km · Waimakariri River Regional Park · walk · bike
Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.
The names on this ground 4
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 8.6% of this outline, about 103 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
1 parcel inside this outline sits on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 3 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.
The 2019 liquefaction study put 98% of this outline in the possible class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.
The council’s structure register stands 5 assets on this ground, 3 bridges, 2 sets of steps, sited at Groynes. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The recreation register keeps 29 records inside this outline, plus a marked dog exercise area and 28 pieces of dog-agility gear. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 51 living trees inside this outline, 7 veterans among them, 12 carrying a protection, mostly English Oak, Lombardy Poplar, Maiden's Gum. The file remembers 16 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.
The plan files 75% of this outline under Rural Waimakariri, the rest mostly Open Space Water and Margins 16%, Specific Purpose (Golf Resort) 2%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.
The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 2% of this outline, about 25 hectares, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s ecological schedules cover 7% of this outline, about 87 hectares across 3 scheduled sites, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 13% of this outline, about 161 hectares across 1 scheduled area, 13% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s flood map draws 11% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 136 hectares across 4 mapped areas. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.
The plan’s noise overlays cover 88% of this outline, about 1,052 hectares across 5 mapped overlays, 85% of it inside the airport’s air-noise contours, where the 55 dB line bites, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 104 classified reaches, the plan calling Waimakariri River South Branch and Otukaikino Creek by name, 13% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 30 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 8 inscribed plaques, Coutts Island War Memorial, Groynes among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.
The rulebook binds this ground, 7 drawn instruments, 6 of them dog rules, 1 bottle-store buffer; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.2 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
- War Memorialmonument
- Otukaikino Creekwaterway · 8.6 km
- Ōtūkaikino Streamwaterway · 3.9 km
- Waimakariri Riverwaterway · 160.8 km
The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.
The crash record 5 injury crashes
5 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Coutts Island's outline, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner that keeps appearing: Coutts Island Road at Lorimas Road, 2 injury crashes.
The crime record 580 recorded victimisations
580 victimisations on the Police record inside Coutts Island’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft. Up 7% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
Businesses here 4 in the directory
4 premises in Coutts Island across 3 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Coutts Island, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
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Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 06 June 1860)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LIST OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. (Daily Southern Cross, 03 July 1860)Daily Southern Cross · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. (Lyttelton Times, 21 November 1860)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 April 1862)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
BIRTH. (Otago Daily Times, 31 August 1871)Otago Daily Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 10 September 1880)Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 21 September 1880)Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 23 September 1884)
…ailway station daily 34 irwell railway station and brookside thrice weekly 85 kaiapoi and coutts island thrice weekly 36 kaiapoi and eyreton thrice weekly 37 kaiapoi and saltwater creek duly 38 leesto…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Sporting. (Evening Post, 17 November 1887)Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Timaru Herald, 08 November 1889)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Coutts Island 2 lately
Something seen — Coutts Island Rd, Christchurch, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · fredbro ·
ivies seen — HH65+JW, Coutts Island, Christchurch 7670, New ZealandiNaturalist · birb_chaser ·
26 more documents came up in searches for Coutts Island's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Coutts Island with Belfast · Northwood · Ouruhia · Kainga · Casebrook · Redwood, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Coutts Island?
A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, the public record holds 427 council reports for it, the first filed in July 2015.
What gets reported in Coutts Island?
427 reports on record, most often rubbish & dumping (178), trees & parks (134), roads & footpaths (66). 69 of them in the year to 14 October 2026.
How many crashes has Coutts Island had?
5 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Coutts Island?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.2 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
What stood in Coutts Island before?
The heritage register holds 1 place here, St David's Church and Setting. The written record goes back further: the shelf, for the name →
Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →