91 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
- Moa Reserve, 407 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Packe Reserve, 413 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 460 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Canterbury House, 170 m away · Hostels
- All Stars Inn on Bealey, 204 m away · Hostels
- The Studios (Bealey Quarter), 221 m away · Motels
- The Bealey ale and steak house, 231 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, 207 m away · route 44
- Barbadoes St near Purchas St, 224 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Edgeware, 399 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 19 May 2025 Child scooter dumped on the verge outside 91 Purchas Street needs removal.
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 20 Oct 2024 Water appears to be backflowing somewhere near 91 Purchas Street.
- Dumped Rubbish, 6 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
- 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
3 council reports on record since August 2023, most often dumped rubbish (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Edgeware, Christchurch, on Purchas Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Moa Reserve, 407 m to its edge.

