18 John Paterson Drive
3 council reports since October 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 5 John Paterson Drive, 36 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 →
On the doorstep
- The Cocktail People, 147 m away · Caterers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, 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
- Flooding, 2
- Fallen Tree, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 17 Feb 2026 I have asked and sent this snap so many times times starting to think a waste of time. Send a truck to clean drain that is under big paddle
Fallen Tree, 10 Nov 2025 Tree falling on road
Flooding, 5 Oct 2025 Always floods as drain must be blocked as drain DD er the water Many times I have sent this
Elsewhere on John Paterson Drive
- 5 John Paterson Drive, 36 reports
- 6 John Paterson Drive, 25 reports
- 19 John Paterson Drive, 8 reports
- 26R John Paterson Drive, 7 reports
- 14 John Paterson Drive, 6 reports
- 50R John Paterson Drive, 5 reports
- 9 John Paterson Drive, 4 reports
- 17 John Paterson Drive, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names John Paterson 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.
John Paterson 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
3 council reports on record since October 2025, most often flooding (2), fallen tree (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on John Paterson Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →


