1 Vanguard Drive
7 council reports since February 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Vanguard Drive.
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
- Malabar Reserve, 201 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Pensacola Reserve, 208 m to the edge
- Heidi Reserve, 301 m to the edge
- Broomfield Common, 308 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Arcon Stream Reserve, 348 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 47 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Firsteel, 355 m away · Hardware
- Coupland's, 394 m away · Bakeries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Vanguard Dr, 32 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Vanguard Dr, 60 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hei Hei, 242 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hei Hei, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hei Hei, 299 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hei Hei, 372 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hei Hei ran about $580 a week, $30 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
Street Light Outage, 16 Mar 2026 Street light outage
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Jan 2026 Trampoline left on berm
Hazard, vehicle, 14 Nov 2025 Cars parked on cycleway/footpath
- Graffiti, 5 Sept 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Jun 2023
- Street Cleaning, 21 Feb 2023
Elsewhere on Vanguard Drive
- 75 Vanguard Drive, 2 reports
- 2 Vanguard Drive, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Vanguard Drive in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Vanguard Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Hei Hei → · 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
7 council reports on record since February 2023, most often dumped rubbish (3), street light outage (1), street cleaning (1).
Hei Hei, Christchurch, on Vanguard Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Malabar Reserve, 201 m to its edge.