8 Fern Drive
3 council reports since August 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 16 Fern Drive, 4 reports on file.
On the register here
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, 56 m to the edge · playground, 35 pieces
- Halswell Domain, 214 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Scott Park Wigram, 266 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Balcairn Reserve, 352 m to the edge · playground, 30 pieces
- Rearsby Reserve, 420 m to the edge · playground, 3 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, 191 m away · Fast food
- Halswell Fish and Chip Shop, 193 m away · Fast food
- The Halswell, 271 m away · Bars & pubs
- Halswell Tavern, 272 m away · Venues & events
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Halswell Rd, 198 m away · route 7, route 100
- Halswell Rd, 217 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, 199 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.
The remembered names nearby
- This Tree Was Part of ‘coronation Avenue’ Sponsored, 239 m away ·
THIS TREE WAS PART OF ‘CORONATION AVENUE’ SPONSORED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY AND PUBLI
· 2008 - This Tree Was Part of 'Coronation Avenue' Sponsored, 240 m away ·
THIS TREE WAS PART OF 'CORONATION AVENUE' SPONSORED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY AND PUBLI
· 2008
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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 7 Dec 2025 Hi, our green waste bin has been broken by the truck and is held together with tape currently. Could we please have a replacement bin. The s
Rubbish and Bins - General, 16 Oct 2025 The lid on our green waste bin was broken by the truck today and is now unusable. Please provide a new green bin
Water Leak, 29 Aug 2022 The water shut off valve on the grass berm outside our house has water sitting on top of it and excess water on our grass so obviously there
Elsewhere on Fern Drive
- 16 Fern Drive, 4 reports
- 27 Fern Drive, 3 reports
- 16-18 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
3 council reports on record since August 2022, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), water leak (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Fern Drive.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Halswell War Memorial and Setting.
Fern Reserve, 56 m to its edge.