16/18 Fern Drive
5 council reports since June 2016, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Fern Drive.
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
- Fern Reserve, you are in it · playground, 35 pieces
- Scott Park Wigram, 195 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Halswell Domain, 287 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Balcairn Reserve, 325 m to the edge · playground, 30 pieces
- Wales Reserve, 385 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Halswell Fish & Chips, 247 m away · Fast food
- Halswell Fish and Chip Shop, 248 m away · Fast food
- Halswell Tavern, 334 m away · Venues & events
- The Halswell, 335 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Halswell Rd, 267 m away · route 7, route 100
- Halswell Rd, 286 m away · route 7, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 272 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 Halswell ran about $697 a week, $147 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 11 Sept 2024 Broken slat of wooden bench
Playground Equipment, 2 Aug 2024 Vital playground structures paintless and rusted. On ladders and by bridges. As this is a playground for toddlers adjacent to a Plunket it i
Parks, 10 Jul 2017
Big ditch for a kid to trip over where iPad is located. Fern reserve.
Parks, 20 Jul 2016
Hi the padlock on the gate at Fern Reserve next to the Halswell Plunket rooms has disappeared. If the council are going to replace this lock
Parks, 29 Jun 2016
Flax bushes are obstructing the path of the swing in playground. Playground is used by community and Halswell Plunket playgroup regularly. T
Elsewhere on Fern Drive
- 16 Fern Drive, 4 reports
- 8 Fern Drive, 3 reports
- 27 Fern Drive, 3 reports
- 61 Fern Drive, 2 reports
- 54 Fern Drive, 2 reports
- 49 Fern Drive, 2 reports
- 43 Fern Drive, 2 reports
- 37 Fern Drive, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Fern Drive in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Fern Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Halswell → · 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 June 2016, most often parks (3), playground equipment (1), park - general request (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Fern Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Fern Reserve, the address is inside it.

