87 Ilam Road
3 council reports since February 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 66 Ilam Road, 21 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Ilam Gardens (13m)
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Ilam, 87 Ilam Road (48m)
- College House Library and Setting, 100B Waimairi Road (203m)
- College House Accommodation Block (North) Rymer, Chichele, Watts Russell and Setting (236m)
- College House Accommodation Block (South) Stanford, Carrington, Milford, Parr, Warren and Setting, 100A Waimairi Road (245m)
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
- Siska Reserve, 323 m to the edge
- Peer Reserve, 423 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
- Ilam Homestead Function Centre, 67 m away · Venues & events
- The UCSA Event Centre, 186 m away · Venues & events
- Ilam Apartments, 216 m away · Hostels
- Haere-roa Events Centre, 230 m away · Venues & events
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- University - Ilam Rd, 188 m away · route 3, route 100
- Waimairi Rd near Athol Tce, 351 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 115 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 157 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 173 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 325 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 325 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
- General Request, 2
- Flooding, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 7 Mar 2025 Rubbish and vegetation is accumulating in the river at the Ilam homestead.
- General Request, 25 Sept 2022
Flooding, 6 Feb 2022 There is unuasally low waterlevel in the stream at Ilam garden. I assume there is a blockage further upstream
Elsewhere on Ilam Road
- 66 Ilam Road, 21 reports
- 90 Ilam Road, 11 reports
- 77 Ilam Road, 11 reports
- 120 Ilam Road, 10 reports
- 149 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 121 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 158 Ilam Road, 6 reports
- 129 Ilam Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ilam Road in 66 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 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.
Ilam Road, 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 February 2022, most often general request (2), flooding (1).
Ilam, Christchurch, on Ilam Road.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Ilam Gardens, Former Dwelling and Setting, Ilam.
Siska Reserve, 323 m to its edge.

