506 Halswell Road

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

• Muir Park, you are in it · 1 ha · playground, 33 pieces
• Birchdale Reserve, 367 m to the edge
• Talbot Reserve, 418 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 18 pieces
• Sovereign Gardens Reserve, 491 m to the edge

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Halswell Dairy, 294 m away · Dairies & convenience
• Halswell Vape Shop, 294 m away · E Cigarette
• Steviez Cafe, 326 m away · Cafés
• Our Vets Halswell, 333 m away · Vets

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Halswell Rd near Larsens Rd, 40 m away · route 100
• Halswell Rd near Larsens Rd, 76 m away · route 100

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Halswell, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Halswell, 30 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Halswell, 160 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Halswell, 380 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

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

• Parks, 3
• Overgrown Vegetation, 3
• Street Cleaning, 1
• Pavement - General, 1
• Pavement - Damaged, 1
• Graffiti somewhere else, 1

Photographed here 9 on record

more photographs
on the Halswell wall →

What’s on record

• Pavement - General, 11 Sept 2025 Crossing this foot bridge this morning early. Nearly slipped on a wide patch of ice. Heavy frost overnight with a lot of rain yesterday aft
• Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Jan 2025 514 Halswell Rd-- top of railing on bridge over stream at entrance to Muir Park
• Street Cleaning, 17 Dec 2024 Debris following crash
• Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Dec 2024 Path is being overgrown by rose bush. Vis8bility around this corner is poor, it's often used by schoolkids and cyclists.
• Pavement - Damaged, 24 Jun 2024 The lip going onto the awesome new bridge has deteriorated. Making it dangerous for kids scooters after coming down the hill from Halswell
• Overgrown Vegetation, 30 Jan 2024 Over grown plants at bridge and on path. Visibility issue as this is. High usage path for kids on bikes and scooters going to school
• Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Nov 2023
• Parks, 11 Apr 2022 Rose bush in Muir Park obscures good views of the path. Cyclists, pedestrians and especially school kids on scooters often surprise each oth
• Parks, 29 Dec 2021 Dumping rubbish in stream
• Parks, 1 Mar 2021 tree brunch needs removed

Elsewhere on Halswell Road

• 305 Halswell Road, 57 reports
• 347A Halswell Road, 55 reports
• 303 Halswell Road, 19 reports
• 346 Halswell Road, 17 reports
• 341 Halswell Road, 16 reports
• 514 Halswell Road, 15 reports
• 339 Halswell Road, 15 reports
• 301 Halswell Road, 14 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Halswell Road in 32 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 people killed, 6 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.