51A Dunbars Road
2 council reports since May 2022, 2 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. 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
- Dunbars Landscape Reserve, 13 m to the edge
- Cobra Reserve, 102 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Marcella Reserve, 185 m to the edge
- Rooney Reserve, 226 m to the edge
- Dunbars Reserve, 308 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 Toy Library, 319 m away · Op shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Dunbars Rd near Balkwell St, 52 m away · route 100
- Dunbars Rd near Balkwell St, 112 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 343 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Dunbars Landscape Reserve plaque, 244 m away ·
(Carved motif with letter A, no inscription)
· 2006
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
- Water Leak, 1
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 8 Jun 2022 In front of 53 dunbars. Leak.
Graffiti, 7 May 2022 51A Dunbars Rd - Graffiti on utility box
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
2 council reports on record since May 2022, most often water leak (1), graffiti (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Dunbars Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Dunbars Landscape Reserve, 13 m to its edge.

