227 Opawa Road
2 council reports since January 2020, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153A Opawa Road, 25 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
- Hillsborough Park, 270 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Monro Playground, 326 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Curries Reserve, 462 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
- Otis, 53 m away · Company
- C2 Coffee, 123 m away · Cafés
- In Situ, 125 m away · Cafés
- Bus Stop Dairy, 126 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Opawa Rd near Mary Mclean Pl, 47 m away · route 8
- Opawa Rd near Grange St, 104 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 28 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 42 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 216 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 376 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 468 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.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hillsborough ran about $445 a week, $105 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 20 Mar 2026 contractors parked on yellow lines and foot path as well as grassed berm
Roading/Streets, 8 Jan 2020
Bottle glass on road. Removed what I could
Elsewhere on Opawa Road
- 153A Opawa Road, 25 reports
- 218 Opawa Road, 24 reports
- 288 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 172 Opawa Road, 14 reports
- 220 Opawa Road, 11 reports
- 200 Opawa Road, 10 reports
- 158 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 255 Opawa Road, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Opawa Road in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Opawa Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hillsborough → · 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 January 2020, most often roading/streets (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Opawa Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hillsborough Park, 270 m to its edge, 4 ha.