5 Waipapa Avenue
4 council reports since April 2018, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2i Waipapa Avenue, 44 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage, 18 Purau Avenue (166m)
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
- Coastal Cliff Reserve, 28 m to the edge · 18 ha
- Stoddart Point Reserve, 41 m to the edge · 22 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Kirk Park, 490 m to the edge · playground, 15 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
- Diamond Harbour Library, 110 m away · Library
- Diamond Harbour Cemetery, 185 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Preserved Cook School and Eatery, 48 m away · Cafés
- Godley Cafe, 61 m away · Cafés
- Diamond Harbour Country Store and Cafe, 69 m away · Cafés
- Diamond Harbour Surgery, 73 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Diamond Harbour Jetty, 362 m away · the Diamond Harbour ferry
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- This Memorial Marks the 50th Anniversary of the End of WWII, 64 m away ·
THIS MEMORIAL MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WWII / (1939 - 1945) / D H COMMUNIT
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 14 Dec 2023 Large pine tree toppled down the cliff across Diamond Harbour beach track. Cliff track balustrade destroyed.
Water Leak, 29 Dec 2021 Water leak from new water main connection to old line.
Water Supply, 13 May 2018
This has been leaking from mains for weeks
Wastewater/Stormwater, 18 Apr 2018
The drain in the middle of the road is leaking. It's been going on for months but is getting worse.
Elsewhere on Waipapa Avenue
- 2i Waipapa Avenue, 44 reports
- 2D Waipapa Avenue, 31 reports
- 2 Waipapa Avenue, 22 reports
- 2A Waipapa Avenue, 21 reports
- 2J Waipapa Avenue, 14 reports
- 1J Waipapa Avenue, 11 reports
- 6 Waipapa Avenue, 10 reports
- 1 Waipapa Avenue, 10 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waipapa Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula 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.
Waipapa Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Diamond Harbour → · 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 April 2018, most often water supply (1), water leak (1), wastewater/stormwater (1).
Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, on Waipapa Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage.
Coastal Cliff Reserve, 28 m to its edge, 18 ha.

