8 Avalon Street
3 council reports since August 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Avalon Street.
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
- Richmond Playground, 359 m to the edge · playground, 14 pieces
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 407 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Champion Reserve, 438 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
- Challenge Hills Road, 55 m away · Petrol stations
- Shirley Motors Workshop, 69 m away · Car repair
- Nanny's Food Truck, 90 m away · Fast food
- Lumino The Dentists, 107 m away · Dentists
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 411 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 489 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 22 Feb 2026 Dead tree next to a path. Has cracks running through it. Likely won't be too long until it splits and falls.
Dumped Rubbish, 3 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 25 Aug 2024 Graffiti on wooden fence
Elsewhere on Avalon Street
- 20 Avalon Street, 3 reports
- 14A Avalon Street, 2 reports
- 27 Avalon Street, 1 report
- 24 Avalon Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Avalon Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central 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.
Avalon 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 2024, most often trees - general (1), graffiti somewhere else (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Edgeware, Christchurch, on Avalon Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Richmond Playground, 359 m to its edge.


