97 Waimairi Road
10 council reports since December 2023, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 138 Waimairi Road, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
- College House Kitchen, Dining Hall, Office, Common Room, Study Centre, Foyer, Accommodation Block and Setting, 100 Waimairi Road (40m)
- College House Principal's Lodge and Setting (65m)
- College House Chapel and Setting, 100C Waimairi Road (69m)
- College House Courtyard and setting, 100A Waimairi Road (85m)
- College House Accommodation Block (South) Stanford, Carrington, Milford, Parr, Warren and Setting, 100A Waimairi Road (87m)
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
- Peer Reserve, 112 m to the edge
- Siska Reserve, 300 m to the edge
- Corfe Reserve, 393 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pizza Pi & Cafe, 169 m away · Restaurants
- Shirleys Kitchen, 177 m away · Restaurants
- Hinau Laundry, 182 m away · Laundromats
- University Of Canterbury Rugby Football Club, 204 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waimairi Rd near Athol Tce, 194 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Waimairi Rd near Dovedale Ave, 313 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, 2 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 147 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 148 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 183 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Ilam, 251 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
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 18 Jul 2025 This traffic light was damaged 3+ weeks ago and I saw it was posted on SSS twice so I didn't report it but I did ring the CCC a week later t
Traffic Signals, 3 Jul 2025
Traffic Signals, 21 Jun 2025 Someone has hit traffic light pole. Been like this for a week or more
Traffic Signals, 20 Jun 2025 Traffic light pole has been crashed into and has been bent for some time. No reenforcement blocks have been added nor has it been removed ye
Traffic Signals, 20 Jun 2025 Traffic light pole has been leaning for about 2 months and out of order. I know someone else has snapped a pic of it last month but nothing
Damaged Street Sign, 6 Jun 2025 As per photo, this has been broken for months. Does no end care anymore
Traffic Signals, 21 May 2025 You may already know - but noticed someone has hit this traffic light on Waimairi Rd / Peer St
- Damaged Street Sign, 10 May 2025
Blue left hand side sign damaged. This has been collected by UC Security. Can be collected from 114 Ilam Rd
Litter, 4 Mar 2025 Broken glass on crossing traffic island
Damaged Road, 14 Dec 2023 Pot holes and surface disintegration
Elsewhere on Waimairi Road
- 138 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
- 201 Waimairi Road, 15 reports
- 186 Waimairi Road, 14 reports
- 108B Waimairi Road, 12 reports
- 130 Waimairi Road, 11 reports
- 119 Waimairi Road, 11 reports
- 253 Waimairi Road, 10 reports
- 134 Waimairi Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waimairi Road in 91 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 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.
Waimairi 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
10 council reports on record since December 2023, most often traffic signals (5), damaged street sign (2), poles and signage - general (1).
Ilam, Christchurch, on Waimairi Road.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, College House Kitchen, Dining Hall, Office, Common Room, Study Centre, Foyer, Accommodation Block and Setting, College House Principal's Lodge and Setting.
Peer Reserve, 112 m to its edge.








