15 Powell Crescent
3 council reports since November 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Powell Crescent.
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
- Bullock Reserve, 80 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Burnside Park, 200 m to the edge · Sports ground · 29 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Westburn Reserve, 381 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 12 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Grahams Road Surgery, 356 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Burnside Bowling Club, 391 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Grahams Rd near Powell Cres, 85 m away · route 130
- Grahams Rd near Powell Cres, 110 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 Ilam ran about $548 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
Dumped Rubbish, 8 Oct 2025 Old armchair has been left on the berm for weeks outside a student flat. It is damaged and is rubbish. Should’ve been dumped but has been le
Rubbish and Bins - General, 8 Dec 2023 We just moved into our new flat and our red rubbish bin lid is broken. We’d like to get a replacement please.
- Overgrown Vegetation, 6 Nov 2023
Elsewhere on Powell Crescent
- 33 Powell Crescent, 2 reports
- 23 Powell Crescent, 1 report
- 14 Powell Crescent, 1 report
- 11 Powell Crescent, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Powell Crescent in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Waimairi ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Powell Crescent, the whole record → · Everything about Ilam → · 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 November 2023, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Ilam, Christchurch, on Powell Crescent.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bullock Reserve, 80 m to its edge.

