8 Francis Avenue
6 council reports since May 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 7 Francis Avenue, 14 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
- St Albans Park, 117 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 101 pieces
- Berwick Reserve, 316 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
- King's Books & Stamps, 122 m away · Bookshops
- Kin Kin, 132 m away · Restaurants
- Kin Kin South East Asian Takeaway, 135 m away · Restaurants
- Vape Centre, 139 m away · E Cigarette
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Flockton St near Carrick St, 166 m away · route 44
- Flockton St near Carrick St, 179 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 123 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Mairehau, 491 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 3 on record
What’s on record
- Litter, 9 Dec 2024
Pair of sports shoes (with laces tied together) hanging on overhead lines which cross the road between power poles outside 7 Francis Avenue,
Water Leak, 27 Oct 2024- Litter, 12 Oct 2024
Pair of white shoes (with laces tied together) hanging on overhead lines which cross the road between power poles outside 7 Francis Avenue,
- Vandalism - General, 10 Oct 2024
Pair of shoes hanging on overhead lines which cross road outside 7 Francis Avenue, Mairehau.
Water Leak, 17 Jun 2024 Mains water leak to the left of the property water mains box
Graffiti somewhere else, 3 May 2024 On top
Elsewhere on Francis Avenue
- 7 Francis Avenue, 14 reports
- 10 Francis Avenue, 9 reports
- 19 Francis Avenue, 7 reports
- 67 Francis Avenue, 6 reports
- 3 Francis Avenue, 6 reports
- 21 Francis Avenue, 6 reports
- 11 Francis Avenue, 6 reports
- 26 Francis Avenue, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Francis Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Francis Avenue, 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
6 council reports on record since May 2024, most often water leak (2), litter (2), vandalism - general (1).
Mairehau, Christchurch, on Francis Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Albans Park, 117 m to its edge, 6 ha.


