179 Kennedys Bush Road, Kennedys Bush
40 reports on record since September 2016 · 30 with photographs. The most-reported address on Kennedys Bush Road. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Pothole — 9
- Roads - General — 4
- Flooding — 4
- Dumped Rubbish — 4
- Abandoned Vehicle — 3
- Roading/Streets — 2
Photographed here 30 on record
Reported here
Roads - General — Needs 6 cubic metres bark chip to add to thin layer already around plantings between curbing and boundary fence. Weeds are coming through.
Abandoned Vehicle — Abandoned vehicle. Parked outside our boundary, opposite Halswell Quarry, for 8 days now. Not reported stolen but previously reported as aba
Litter — Glass on footpath
Dumped Rubbish — Pipe lay on grass
Sewer General — While walking a very strong smell of sewage in the drain heading down kennedys bush road at the junction of the road to the halswell quarry.
Abandoned Vehicle — Mazda Demio vandalized and abandoned. Probably used for burnouts in Kennedys Bush Rd last night. Skid marks all along road.
Abandoned Vehicle — Grey Daihatsu Sirion, parked in Kennedys Bush Rd opposite quarry for at least 3 days. No houses nearby so suspected stolen and abandoned.
Dumped Rubbish — One car tyre and one trolley. Dumped in bush in front of our place. Kennedys Bush Rd opposite Halswell Quarry.
Sewer - Leak / Blockage — Leak over the top of sewer line on footpath. 179 Kennedys Bush Road. In new front berm near white post.
Pothole — Raised sump is getting too dangerous. Cars are veering into on coming traffic to avoid them.
Pothole — Pot hole
Dumped Rubbish — Two broken seats, left by contractors. One is clearly branded with the Johnson's logo. Been here for a few weeks
Park - General Request — Main entrance to Halswell Quarry states that gates are shut at 7pm. Alternative entrance on Cashmere Road states that gates are shut at 9pm.
Flooding — Surface water on road not draining after rainfall. Still present after many days.
Flooding — Brand new completed section of road underwater lane blocked no drainage...
Roads - General — Flooding
Roads - General — New kerbing next to Halswell Quarry on Kennedys Bush Road is stopping the water from draining away as it used to before the jerbing went in.
Pavement - General — Flooding where new road works happened. This was a lot later in the afternoon and still had not subsided
Flooding — Danger to traffic
- Flooding —
Not surprised to see that new part of road with kerbing & footpaths has started flooding already after less than 1/2hr of rain. Poor desig
Roads - General — New kerbing outside Quarry Park has included what looks like two stormwater access hatches. Both of these hatches protrude from the road sur
Dumped Rubbish — Rubbish Dumped opposite quarry entrance
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 
Road Signage — The traffic management at this site seems excessive for a Saturday and Sunday period. Could the contractor consider protecting only the are
Graffiti — Graffiti on the road facing poles at Halswell Quarry, looks terrible.
Pavement - Damaged — The footpath has sunk and fills up with water. The water is about 5 60mm deep today. Makes it difficult to walk for people with a pushchair
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- Overgrown Vegetation —
- Vandalism - General —
Pothole — - Pothole —
Verge entering Carpark dangerous.
Pothole — Getting huge - damage occurring to vehicles.
Roading/Streets —
Gravel on road big hazard for cyclists coming down the hill. There is more gravel up the hill. Our group has had 1 come off today already.
Wastewater/Stormwater —
On Cashmere Rd entrance drive to Quarry. Water is bubbling up from a crack in the road and pooling at walkway entrance.
Roading/Streets —
Broken fence on side of road
Also reported on Kennedys Bush Road
- 185 Kennedys Bush Road — 24 reports
- 275 Kennedys Bush Road — 19 reports
- 189 Kennedys Bush Road — 14 reports
- 319 Kennedys Bush Road — 10 reports
- 243 Kennedys Bush Road — 10 reports
- 201B Kennedys Bush Road — 10 reports
- 201A-201B Kennedys Bush Road — 10 reports
- 201A Kennedys Bush Road — 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Kennedys Bush Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006 — 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The green nearby
- Halswell Quarry Park — you are in it · Regional · 56 ha
- Stowe Drainage Reserve — 427 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Whare — 263 m away · Museums
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush — 7 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Halswell Quarry Park plaque — 160 m away ·
(illegible plaque – weathered)
· 2004 - Halswell Quarry Park plaque — 195 m away ·
20 DEC 1963 / TIME CAPSULE / MARKING (illegible) / TO BE OPENED NEXT CENTURY / (sponsor li
· 2001 - John Taylor Walkway — 214 m away ·
JOHN TAYLOR WALKWAY
· 2001
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres — the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Kennedys Bush ran about $730 a week — $180 above the city median of $550 — the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What was here — Former Dwelling and setting, Halswell Quarry Manager's Residence, Garden and Garage
141 m away · located to ±61 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward — the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
40 council reports on record since September 2016 — most often pothole (9), roads - general (4), flooding (4).
Kennedys Bush, Christchurch — on Kennedys Bush Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it — Former Dwelling and setting, Halswell Quarry Manager's Residence, Garden and Garage.
Halswell Quarry Park — the address is inside it, 56 ha.