2 Harvard Avenue
2 council reports since March 2026, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Harvard Avenue.
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
- Vickerys Reserve, 239 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Wigram Village Green, 344 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Rollerdrome Reserve, 383 m to the edge · Sports ground · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mobil Wigram, 42 m away · Petrol stations
- Chipmunks Playland & Cafe Wigram, 43 m away · Attractions
- BP, 57 m away · Petrol stations
- Kings Swim School, 117 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harvard Ave and Main South Rd, 75 m away · route 5, route 80, route 100
- Main South Rd near Harvard Ave, 118 m away · route 5, route 80, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 491 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hornby ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Mar 2026 Grafetti on white box in front of Harvard aeroplane
Pavement - General, 5 Mar 2026 This road cone and signage has been sitting here for several weeks.
Elsewhere on Harvard Avenue
- 3 Harvard Avenue, 1 report
- 2A Harvard Avenue, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Harvard Avenue in 3 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.
Harvard Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Hornby → · 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 March 2026, most often pavement - general (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Harvard Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Vickerys Reserve, 239 m to its edge.

