9 Rapaki Road
4 council reports since June 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 29 Rapaki Road, 9 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
- King George V Reserve, 174 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Hansen Park, 223 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Erewhon Reserve, 297 m to the edge
- Alderson Reserve, 383 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Hillsborough Park, 476 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 61 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 75 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 112 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 115 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 256 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 342 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- H.G. Ell Memorial Gates 25 June 1984 to Commemorate, 200 m away ·
H.G. ELL MEMORIAL GATES 25 June 1984 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of H
· 2008 - In Loving Memory, 245 m away ·
In loving memory of/ Dr. David E Hansen and Professor Dr. John M Hansen,/ father and son w
· 2026
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 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Water General, 21 Oct 2025 Drains blocked. At bottom of the driveway, by #9 and #7 and #11. Beside letterboxes.
Water General, 16 Sept 2025 Leaking water meter. At bottom of the driveway.
Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 1 Jul 2025 Council stormwater entirely blocked on hill. Go to 9 Rapaki Road. Go up the long steep driveway on the right side. Go up past the vacant lot
Water General, 4 Jun 2025 Completely blocked storm water drain. Wood chips and bush cuttings. One next to it is similar.
Elsewhere on Rapaki Road
- 29 Rapaki Road, 9 reports
- 35 Rapaki Road, 7 reports
- 21 Rapaki Road, 7 reports
- 11 Rapaki Road, 7 reports
- 5 Rapaki Road, 6 reports
- 44 Rapaki Road, 6 reports
- 3A Rapaki Road, 6 reports
- 30 Rapaki Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rapaki Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Rapaki 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
4 council reports on record since June 2025, most often water general (3), sewer - leak / blockage (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Rapaki Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
King George V Reserve, 174 m to its edge, 1 ha.



