130 Purchas Street
3 council reports since August 2023, 2 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, 357 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Moa Reserve, 415 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Packe Reserve, 449 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Avon Riverbank Central City, 493 m to the edge · 6 ha
- Champion Reserve, 496 m to the edge · playground, 50 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, 184 m away · Hostels
- Canterbury House, 229 m away · Hostels
- Avalon Court Motel, 237 m away · Motels
- The Bealey ale and steak house, 247 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 21 m away · route 44
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 33 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 376 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 472 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
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 18 Feb 2026 Gizmo dumped on the verge by the corner of Barbadoes and 130 Purchas Street needs removal.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 16 Jun 2025 Gold paint tag on road direction sign by the corner of 130 Purchas Street and Barbadoes Street.
- General Request, 25 Aug 2023
Elsewhere on Purchas Street
- 105A Purchas Street, 19 reports
- 118 Purchas Street, 13 reports
- 135 Purchas Street, 6 reports
- 124 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 105 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 91 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 160 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 145 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
3 council reports on record since August 2023, most often graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1), general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Edgeware, Christchurch, on Purchas Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barbadoes Cemetery, 357 m to its edge, 3 ha.