8 Muriwai Drive
2 council reports since August 2021, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Muriwai Drive.
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
- James Drive Reserve, 73 m to the edge · playground, 8 pieces
- Coastal Cliff Reserve, 158 m to the edge · 18 ha
- Laurenson Park, 329 m to the edge
- Church Bay Foreshore, 338 m to the edge · 3 ha
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 Recycling Depot, 369 m away · Transfer station
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Salt, 207 m away · Cafés
- Four Square, 241 m away · Supermarkets
- Two Thumb Harbourside, 252 m away · Bars & pubs
- Diamond Harbour Lodge, 258 m away · B&Bs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The named ground
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
- Shambles / 1988 - 1998, 155 m away ·
Shambles / 1988 - 1998
· 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Mar 2025 Hello there Please can I have a new bin. Mine has a growing split. Please and thank you in advance.
Water Leak, 7 Aug 2021 I live at 8 Muriwai Drive. The bottom corner of my garden is never able to grow native plants and just die. I actually call it dead corner.
Elsewhere on Muriwai Drive
- 23 Muriwai Drive, 2 reports
- 5 Muriwai Drive, 1 report
- 12 Muriwai Drive, 1 report
- 10 Muriwai Drive, 1 report
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.
Muriwai Drive, 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
2 council reports on record since August 2021, most often water leak (1), rubbish and bins - general (1).
Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, on Muriwai Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
James Drive Reserve, 73 m to its edge.

