279 Knowles Street
2 council reports since December 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 271 Knowles Street, 3 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
- Dudley Creek Waterway, 197 m to the edge
- Wanaka Reserve, 303 m to the edge
- Edgeware Tennis Club, 409 m to the edge
- Fortune Playground, 410 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Nancy Ave Fish and Chips, 63 m away · Fast food
- Mairehau Medical Centre, 142 m away · Centre
- Michael's Espresso, 176 m away · Cafés
- Mairehau Fish Supply, 180 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kensington Ave near Innes Rd, 170 m away · route 44
- Kensington Ave near Innes Rd, 184 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 98 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 106 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 428 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 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Sign, 9 Dec 2024 Sign appears broken, and removed from ground.
Damaged Street Sign, 7 Dec 2024 Street sign has been smashed off at ground level, suspect via a vehicle as it is cracked part way up the pole as well. Sign is for Payling L
Elsewhere on Knowles Street
- 271 Knowles Street, 3 reports
- 259 Knowles Street, 3 reports
- 265 Knowles Street, 2 reports
- 264 Knowles Street, 2 reports
- 258 Knowles Street, 2 reports
- 243 Knowles Street, 2 reports
- 235 Knowles Street, 2 reports
- 274 Knowles Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Knowles Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Papanui 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.
Knowles 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
2 council reports on record since December 2024, most often damaged street sign (2).
Mairehau, Christchurch, on Knowles Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Dudley Creek Waterway, 197 m to its edge.

