124 Purchas Street
5 council reports since May 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 105A Purchas Street, 19 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
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 385 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Moa Reserve, 395 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Packe Reserve, 426 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- All Stars Inn on Bealey, 155 m away · Hostels
- Canterbury House, 171 m away · Hostels
- The Bealey ale and steak house, 211 m away · Bars & pubs
- The Studios (Bealey Quarter), 230 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 80 m away · route 44
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 94 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 468 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 496 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 499 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 Edgeware ran about $525 a week, $25 below 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
Dumped Rubbish, 19 May 2026 Pile of rubbish left on footpath and road on Purchas street. Corner of packe.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 12 Nov 2025 Black paint tag on reverse side of Stop sign at the corner of Packe and Purchas Streets.
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 28 May 2022 Black paint tag plus sticky tag on the corner of Packe and Purchas Street on road sign pole.
Rubbish/Recycling, 28 May 2022 Old armchairs dumped on the footpath corner of Packe and Purchas Streets need removal.
Elsewhere on Purchas Street
- 105A Purchas Street, 19 reports
- 118 Purchas Street, 13 reports
- 135 Purchas Street, 6 reports
- 105 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 91 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 160 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 145 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 130 Purchas Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Purchas Street in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Innes ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Purchas Street, the whole record → · Everything about Edgeware → · 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 May 2022, most often dumped rubbish (2), rubbish/recycling (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
Edgeware, Christchurch, on Purchas Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barbadoes Cemetery, 385 m to its edge, 3 ha.