79 Edward Avenue
5 council reports since January 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 49 Edward Avenue, 79 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
- St Albans Park, 175 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 101 pieces
- Champion Reserve, 387 m to the edge · playground, 50 pieces
- Dudley Creek Esplanade Reserve, 450 m to the edge
- Packe Reserve, 462 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Shirley Community Reserve, 479 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pho Sai Thai, 151 m away · Fast food
- Ris'tretto Espresso Coffee, 280 m away · Cafés
- Supreme Chinese Takeaway, 293 m away · Fast food
- BBQ Rib Runner, 296 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barbadoes St near Edward Ave, 167 m away · route 44, route 100
- Barbadoes St near Edward Ave, 180 m away · route 44, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 296 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 316 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 20 Mar 2026 I first reported this large liquefaction hump in September 2025 under snap 6938172. It remains unfixed today yet bizarrely a stretch of the
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Sept 2025 Don’t often walk this side of the street so surprised to see a large liquefaction hump still present years on. Much more pronounced than it
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 7 Mar 2023
- Graffiti, 13 Feb 2023
- Graffiti, 20 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Edward Avenue
- 49 Edward Avenue, 79 reports
- 32 Edward Avenue, 36 reports
- 28 Edward Avenue, 32 reports
- 44 Edward Avenue, 17 reports
- 20 Edward Avenue, 15 reports
- 25 Edward Avenue, 14 reports
- 52 Edward Avenue, 9 reports
- 26 Edward Avenue, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Edward Avenue in 7 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.
Edward Avenue, 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 January 2023, most often pavement - damaged (2), graffiti (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Edgeware, Christchurch, on Edward Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Albans Park, 175 m to its edge, 6 ha.

