29 Dovedale Avenue
8 council reports since January 2018, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 33 Dovedale Avenue, 12 reports on file.
On the register here
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
- Montclare Reserve, 297 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Corfe Reserve, 410 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Annandale Park, 433 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Peer Reserve, 442 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Livingstone Health Medical Centre, 365 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Solway Ave near Glenside Ave, 106 m away · route 130
- Solway Ave near Glenside Ave, 111 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 364 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 427 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 442 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 Ilam ran about $548 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 14 Nov 2025
Roading/Streets, 22 Apr 2022 Water seeping through pavement.
Water Supply, 24 Apr 2019
Pipe may be broken to right side of lamp post.
Water Supply, 4 Jan 2019
Water cut off valve leaking
Rubbish/Recycling, 5 Jul 2018
Smoke butts
Rubbish/Recycling, 29 Jun 2018
Smoke butt
Rubbish/Recycling, 9 Mar 2018
Smashed glass on bicycle/walking path
Water Supply, 26 Jan 2018
Is constantly wet so guessing leak or valve issues for both valves.
Elsewhere on Dovedale Avenue
- 33 Dovedale Avenue, 12 reports
- 5 Dovedale Avenue, 6 reports
- 15 Dovedale Avenue, 5 reports
- 7 Dovedale Avenue, 4 reports
- 23 Dovedale Avenue, 3 reports
- 27B Dovedale Avenue, 2 reports
- 2 Dovedale Avenue, 2 reports
- 9–15 Dovedale Avenue, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Dovedale Avenue in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton 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.
Dovedale Avenue, 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
8 council reports on record since January 2018, most often water supply (3), rubbish/recycling (3), roading/streets (1).
Ilam, Christchurch, on Dovedale Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Fendalton Open Air School Classroom and Setting.
Montclare Reserve, 297 m to its edge.

