4 Watlings Place
3 council reports since February 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Watlings Place.
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
- Halswell Quarry Park, 63 m to the edge · Regional · 56 ha
- Quarry Hill Reserve, 167 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 9 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Kennedys Bush, 68 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 30 Jan 2026
Dumped Rubbish, 21 May 2025 Dump of stuff at nga puna wai near carpark and toilet block off Templeton road
Overgrown Vegetation, 28 Feb 2025 Agapanthus make it unsafe turning out of Watlings Place or into Watlings Place from Kennedys Bush Road. I would be happy to cut down flower
Elsewhere on Watlings Place
- 1 Watlings Place, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell 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.
Watlings Place, the whole record → · Everything about Kennedys Bush → · 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 2025, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Kennedys Bush, Christchurch, on Watlings Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Halswell Quarry Park, 63 m to its edge, 56 ha.

