Pavement - Damaged394 Worsleys Road
The new laid seal is being ripped up by boy racers, not sure why it was laid with out a speed bump to stop burnouts. It's needs yellow lines painted and to…
Kennedys Bush, Christchurch
912 council reports since June 2015, the 79th busiest suburb in the city. 709 photographs on record. 1,450 people at the 2023 Census, 97 to the square kilometre across 15 km².
The record also holds about $730 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 709 photographs· 3 old photographs· 4 parks· 3 tracks· 6 names on the map· 5.7% of the outline mapped liquefied· graded mostly TC3 in 2011· slope-hazard bands cover 4% of the outline· landscape schedules over 50% of the outline· high flood hazard over 5% of the outline· setback strips over 6% of the outline· 55 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 32 remembered names on this ground· 6 drawn rules bind this ground· 50 parcels of made ground· 11 surveyed rocks· 1 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly unlikely· 31 council structures on the register· 2 recreation register records· 185 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 4 places on the heritage schedule· 65 epicentres inside the outline· 16 injury crashes· 178 recorded victimisations· 5 businesses· the council’s fix times· 4 heritage places· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$730/week
middle half $660–$740
New bonds here ran at about $730 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $660 and $740, across 15 bonds lodged, up 1% on a year ago. That’s about $180 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Kennedys Bush” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $720 a week · 9 new bonds
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 6% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC3, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 4 parks and 3 tracks, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 154 reports in the year to 14 October 2026, the newest 13 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 18 March 2018, 6 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 1,713 people and 621 occupied private households in the “Kennedys Bush” and “Halswell South East” areas, grouped from 13 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas26% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity87% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity4% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity12% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet94% of stated households
Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.
Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.
About the suburb
Kennedys Bush is a south-western suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.
As reported 709 on record
The suburb, back then 3 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Kennedys Bush
- Kennedys Bush enters the written record on 22 March 1872, “CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 22 March 1872)”, Papers Past.
- “Kennedys Bush” appears somewhere in 12 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: roading/streets, 12 June 2015, at 10.
- Its busiest day on record was 18 March 2018, 6 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Kennedys Bush Road, reported on 236 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Street Gutters / Storm Water255 Kennedys Bush Rd
This is the third time in a couple of years that our metal driveway panels have had to be repaired and most recently the anchors used to secure the panel…
Pothole107–111 Old Tai Tapu Rd
Numerous potholes on both sides of the road. One particularly big hole at the end of a new patch of seal to watch for
Park - General Request900 Cashmere Road
Have noticed an increasing number of mountain bikers using the Hillside walking track at the Quarry Park. Need of more/ better signage along this track maybe?
Abandoned Vehicle568 Cashmere Road
car that had previously crashed into the ditch around the corner to the left but has now been broken into and left looking pretty horrible. it's not a good…
Abandoned Vehicle70 Hoon Hay Valley Rd
This car was crashed into the ditch corner of hoon hay Rd and cashmere Rd last week, they then parked it in the valley, my son talk to these people the other…
Reports per year up 21% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 1,711 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Kennedys Bush took 5 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 58 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 23 September 2021.
Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · Our Lady of the Assumption School (Chch) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College · and 4 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 4
- Kennedys BushRegional · 134 ha
- Halswell Quarry ParkRegional · 56 ha
- Quarry Hill Reserve2 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Stowe Drainage Reserve
Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here 3
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush2.9 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush2.8 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush2.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.
The names on this ground 6
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 5.7% of this outline, about 84 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The 2011 grading filed 10.1% of this outline, about 150 hectares, mostly TC3. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.
The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 4% of this outline, about 59 hectares, rockfall management area 1. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 70% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.
The files record 50 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, mostly loess, engineered fill, silt. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.
The rockfall survey mapped 11 rocks inside this outline across 3 survey pins, 2 came down, 5 still wobble easy. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.
1 parcel inside this outline carries a cleanup on the file, 1 marked verified. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.
The 2019 liquefaction study put 74% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, 91% of the outline fell inside an assessed area. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.
The council’s structure register stands 31 assets on this ground, 12 bridges, 10 shelters, 6 sets of steps, 2 viewing platforms, sited at Halswell Quarry Park, Kennedys Bush, Quarry Hill Reserve. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The recreation register keeps 2 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 petanque, plus a marked dog exercise area. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 185 living trees inside this outline, 6 veterans among them, 9 carrying a protection, mostly Fastigated Hornbeam, Ribbonwood, Kowhai. The file remembers 110 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.
The plan files 42% of this outline under Rural Port Hills, 9% residential, the rest mostly Rural Urban Fringe 21%, Open Space Natural 18%, 91% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.
The plan’s heritage schedule protects 4 places by name in this suburb, 1 graded highly significant, Former Halswell Quarry, Former Dwelling and setting, Halswell Quarry Manager's Residence, Garden and Garage, Former Halswell Quarry Singlemen’s Quarters and Setting among them. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 50% of this outline, about 746 hectares across 3 scheduled areas, 45% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s flood map draws 5% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 71 hectares across 5 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 12% of it, Lansdowne, Halswell, Heathcote River. 1 ponding spot is mapped here, where the models expect water to sit. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 60 classified reaches, the plan calling Mokomoko Stream and Green Stream by name, 6% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 30 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.
The rebuild’s cameras filed 55 photographs on this ground, 2011–2013, stormwater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 32 inscribed plaques, Halswell Quarry Park among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.
The rulebook binds this ground, 6 drawn instruments, 6 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Rapaki Runanga and Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 65 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.3 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
- Lookout Rocklookout
- Old Halswell Quarryquarry
- Brice Creekwaterway · 1.8 km
- Green Streamwaterway · 1.2 km
- Halswell Riverwaterway · 18.5 km
- Hoon Hay Valley Streamwaterway · 2.5 km
The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.
The crash record 16 injury crashes
16 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Kennedys Bush's outline, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner that keeps appearing: Cashmere Road at Hoon Hay Valley Road, 3 injury crashes.
The crime record 178 recorded victimisations
178 victimisations on the Police record inside Kennedys Bush’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 26 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 11% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
Businesses here 5 in the directory
5 premises in Kennedys Bush across 4 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Among them, the ones the record says most about:
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Kennedys Bush, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
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CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 22 March 1872)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS. (New Zealand Tablet, 31 December 1880)New Zealand Tablet · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (New Zealand Tablet, 04 January 1884)New Zealand Tablet · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The New House. (Bush Advocate, 09 December 1890)Bush Advocate · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
SECOND EDITION. (Bush Advocate, 17 March 1892)Bush Advocate · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
N.Z. RIFLE ASSOCIATION. (Bush Advocate, 17 January 1893)Bush Advocate · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES (Evening Post, 02 November 1898)Evening Post · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Waterfalls on Port Hills and Kennedys Bush
…nnotation reads: “Fall between Sumner and Lyttelton.” Right: An unidentified waterfall in Kennedys Bush, Christchurch. Handwritten annotation reads: “Kennedy’s Bush.” Drayton album…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Waterfalls in the Port Hills and Kennedys Bush
…ritten annotation reads: “On Port Hills. Port Hills.” Right: An unidentified waterfall at Kennedys Bush. Handwritten annotation reads: “Near Kennedys Bush.” Drayton album…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Waterfalls at Murray Aynsley and Kennedys Bush
…ritten annotation reads: “Fall near Murray Ansley’s.” Right: An unidentified waterfall in Kennedys Bush, Christchurch. Handwritten annotation reads: “Waterfall. Kennedy’s Bush.” Drayton album…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Kennedys Bush 5 lately
speedwells seen — Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
Mallows seen — Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
Anoteropsis seen — Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
White Banded House Jumper seen — Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
Hedgemustards seen — Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, New ZealandiNaturalist · aldwinromeo ·
21 more documents came up in searches for Kennedys Bush's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Kennedys Bush with Westmorland · Halswell · Cracroft · Aidanfield · Hoon Hay · Cashmere, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Kennedys Bush?
Kennedys Bush is a south-western suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. The public record holds 912 council reports for it, the first filed in June 2015.
How many people live in Kennedys Bush?
1,450 people at the 2023 Census, 97 per square kilometre across 15 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Kennedys Bush?
About 1,713 people and 621 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Kennedys Bush?
912 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (251), trees & parks (190), water & drains (136). 154 of them in the year to 14 October 2026.
How many crashes has Kennedys Bush had?
16 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Kennedys Bush?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 65 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M4.3 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →