179 Dunbars Road
3 council reports since May 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 23 Dunbars Road, 8 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
- Westlake Reserve, 241 m to the edge · Sports ground · 11 ha · playground, 48 pieces
- Carrs North Basin Drainage Reserve, 299 m to the edge · 4 ha
- Stallion Reserve, 345 m to the edge
- Carrs South Basin Drainage Reserve, 353 m to the edge · 3 ha
- Carrs Reserve, 468 m to the edge · Sports ground · 13 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 268 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 314 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 410 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
- Noise - Animal, 1
- Litter, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 17 Nov 2025
Noise - Animal, 3 Aug 2025 Dog barks continually when owners are not at home, some days this can be for 6-8 hours. Barking is not in reaction to anything- it just bark
Litter, 22 May 2025 Mattress left by residents of 179B Dunbars Rd on footpath to right of their letterbox for 3 weeks. Now that it is wet & soggy from rain, the
Elsewhere on Dunbars Road
- 23 Dunbars Road, 8 reports
- 89 Dunbars Road, 7 reports
- 79 Dunbars Road, 6 reports
- 3A Dunbars Road, 6 reports
- 183 Dunbars Road, 6 reports
- 87 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
- 81 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
- 137 Dunbars Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Dunbars Road in 30 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 10 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.
Dunbars Road, 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
3 council reports on record since May 2025, most often noise - animal (1), litter (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Dunbars Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Westlake Reserve, 241 m to its edge, 11 ha.


