263 Westminster Street
11 council reports since December 2018, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 272 Westminster Street, 35 reports on file.
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
- Mahars Playground, you are in it · playground, 21 pieces
- Westminster Park, 56 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha
- Fernbrook Playground, 333 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Edgeware Tennis Club, 381 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
- Christchurch Park Accommodation, 193 m away · Motels
- Christchurch Football Club, 290 m away · Clubs
- Christchurch Football Squash Club, 290 m away · Clubs
- Providence Cafe, 322 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kensington Ave near Westminster St, 337 m away · route 44
- Kensington Ave near Innes Rd, 355 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 49 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 Mairehau ran about $409 a week, $141 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Jan 2026 Needs to be mowed
Park - General Request, 11 Nov 2025 Broken fence at playground
Playground Equipment, 11 Nov 2025 Broken seesaw with rusty screws sticking out
Park - General Request, 18 Oct 2025 Please have more regular mowing of this Park Every year it only gets mowed a few times during the warm seasons. Children can never kick a ba
Animal - General, 17 May 2025 Escaped or free flying Australian king parrot calling from tree near swings in playground. Flew off toward poplars to the south. I have a be
Park - General Request, 13 Mar 2025 Broken seat
Pest / Vermin, 23 Dec 2024 Looks like a wild rabbit in Mahars Playground. Realistically you may be too difficult to catch this one, and it could easily travel to othe
- Playground Equipment, 11 Apr 2023
- Vandalism - General, 24 Nov 2022
- Playground Equipment, 24 Nov 2022
Parks, 21 Dec 2018
Grass is ridiculously long full of dog poo you cant see, weeds and mushrooms.
Elsewhere on Westminster Street
- 272 Westminster Street, 35 reports
- 274 Westminster Street, 30 reports
- 278 Westminster Street, 22 reports
- 264 Westminster Street, 15 reports
- 280 Westminster Street, 12 reports
- 271 Westminster Street, 11 reports
- 214 Westminster Street, 10 reports
- 270 Westminster Street, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Westminster Street in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Innes ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Westminster Street, the whole record → · Everything about Mairehau → · 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
11 council reports on record since December 2018, most often playground equipment (3), park - general request (3), vandalism - general (1).
Mairehau, Christchurch, on Westminster Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Mahars Playground, the address is inside it.