8 McVicar Drive
4 council reports since November 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on McVicar Drive.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Cashmere Stream Esplanade Reserve, 155 m to the edge · 5 ha
- Westmorland East Valley Reserve, 310 m to the edge · 12 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Onuku Bed and Breakfast, 265 m away · B&Bs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Cracroft, 135 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.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Cracroft ran about $713 a week, $163 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 16 Jun 2026 toilet paper and dirty water coming out of pipe onto the road
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 16 Apr 2026 constant water and waste water pooling in gutter, remains stagnant for weeks unless hosed and cleaned, foul smell,
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 11 Dec 2025 Constant water leak from 8 McVicar Drive into the gutter causing stagnant pooled water and mud buildup
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 21 Nov 2025 Constant water leak into the storm water from here
Elsewhere on McVicar Drive
- 22 McVicar Drive, 4 reports
- 24 McVicar Drive, 3 reports
- 225 McVicar Drive, 1 report
- 20 McVicar Drive, 1 report
- 2 McVicar Drive, 1 report
- 14 McVicar Drive, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
McVicar Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Cracroft → · 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
4 council reports on record since November 2025, most often street gutters / storm water (3), sewer - leak / blockage (1).
Cracroft, Christchurch, on McVicar Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cashmere Stream Esplanade Reserve, 155 m to its edge, 5 ha.