149 Purchas Street
2 council reports since January 2026, 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, 369 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Moa Reserve, 443 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Packe Reserve, 446 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Champion Reserve, 466 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, 218 m away · Hostels
- Avalon Court Motel, 239 m away · Motels
- Canterbury House, 266 m away · Hostels
- The Bealey ale and steak house, 281 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, 53 m away · route 44
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 55 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 343 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 483 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
- Litter, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 16 Feb 2026 Apparent fly tipping outside new construction opposite 144 Ourchas Street
Litter, 2 Jan 2026 Construction site with rubbish strewn everywhere allowing it to blow/spread out onto the street.
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
2 council reports on record since January 2026, most often litter (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, 369 m to its edge, 3 ha.