McLeans Island, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 0% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 park, 1 civic facility, 6 tracks and 2 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 61 reports in the year to 10 October 2026, the newest 3 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 30 June 2016, 15 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

McLeans Island is a rural area north and northwest of Christchurch city, and south of Waimakariri River.

As reported 336 on record

336 photographs
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The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

3 Oct 2026 Road Signage49–51 Conservators Rd

Someone has driven into a wooden post where an 80 sign is attached to. It’s now laying on the grass verge.

1 Oct 2026 Facility - General Request161 Conservators Rd

Vandals have broken this fence. This stops people falling into the Mcleans grassland reserve water race

30 Sept 2026 Animal - Deceased810 McLeans Island Road

there's a dead rabbit under the smaller of the two bike seesaws. You can see it when the seesaw is up (ie when someone is crossing)

24 Sept 2026 Animal - Deceased630–642 McLeans Island Rd

Deceased cat found on McLeans island road opposite steam Scene trains on the grass

23 Sept 2026 Roads - General41–47 Conservators Rd

This morning all the shingle was swept off the road, it’s all back all over the road again!!! It’s so dangerous to drive over it as the car skids on it.

22 Sept 2026 Abandoned Vehicle800 McLeans Island Road

Potential abandoned vehicle, may have been there since Sunday night. Worried about it being targeted. FZN769 VW golf, silver

22 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish278–518 Chattertons Rd

Dumped rubbish

22 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish278–518 Chattertons Rd

Dumped rubbish

12 Sept 2026 Poles and Signage - General124–132 Conservators Rd

This is the Mcleans grassland reserve. No dogs are allowed in there (council rules). There are three stiles into 3 different paddocks. The smallest paddock…

3 Sept 2026 Road Signage580 Chattertons Road

speed limit change not gated

25 Aug 2026 Dumped RubbishCoutts Island Road

Rubbish located at river end of groyne #6

19 Aug 2026 Roads - General39 Conservators Rd

Outside the entrance to Harewood Gravels there is shingle out onto the road, making cars loose traction when they drive over it.

How fast the council fixes things here 372 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in McLeans Island took 4 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 6 months or longer. 15 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 17 February 2023.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Alcohol rules on this ground

One sensitive site stands here, Areas of high deprivation, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences.

The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.

Schools here

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College · Villa Maria College · Emmanuel Christian School (part) · and 7 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 1

• Mcleans Grassland ParkRegional · 158 ha

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf 1

• Public Toilet, Mcleans IslandPublic toilet · Public Toilet

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

The tracks through here 6

• Adventure Trailbike21.5 km · Waimakariri River Regional Park · orv
• Day Walk9.0 km · Waimakariri River Regional Park · walk · bike
• Adventure Mountain Bike8.4 km · Waimakariri River Regional Park · bike
• Adventure Mountain Bike4.8 km · Waimakariri River Regional Park · bike
• Adventure Mountain Bike918 m · Waimakariri River Regional Park · bike
• Adventure Mountain Bike66 m · Waimakariri River Regional Park · bike

Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 4

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.0% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

3 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, explosives and ordinances production, storage and use, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 1 parcel of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 12 hectares. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 49% of this outline in the possible class, 91% of the outline fell inside an assessed area. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The register counts 19 living trees inside this outline, 2 veterans among them, 19 carrying a protection, mostly Kowhai, English Oak, Radiata Pine (w). The file remembers 2 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 43% of this outline under Rural Waimakariri, the rest mostly Open Space Water and Margins 21%, Open Space McLeans Island 14%, 91% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan reserves about 167 hectares of this outline, 3%, under 2 designations, mostly movement. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 10% of this outline, about 535 hectares across 4 scheduled sites, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 30% of this outline, about 1,673 hectares across 2 scheduled areas, 6% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s flood map draws 2% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 100 hectares across 2 mapped areas. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s noise overlays cover 85% of this outline, about 4,718 hectares across 9 mapped overlays, 37% of it inside the airport’s air-noise contours, where the 55 dB line bites, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 27 classified reaches, the plan calling Middle Stream and Waimakariri River South Branch by name, 5% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 30 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The rulebook binds this ground, 3 drawn instruments, 2 of them dog rules, 1 bottle-store buffer; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.3 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

• Kiwiartwork
• Turtoiseartwork
• Waimak Production Sitequarry
• Waimakariri Riverwaterway · 160.8 km

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 52 injury crashes

52 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside McLeans Island's outline, 14 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Pound Road at McLeans Island Road, 14 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 153 recorded victimisations

153 victimisations on the Police record inside McLeans Island’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 185 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 64% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 2 stops

2 Metro stops inside McLeans Island's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 3.

• NTA near McLeans Island Rd
• NTA near McLeans Island Rd

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 19 in the directory

19 premises in McLeans Island across 7 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• Attractions6
• Clubs5
• Golf courses3
• Cafés1
• Museums1
• Restaurants1
• Venues & events1

The whole directory →

On the register here

1. Dwelling and Setting, Former Tiptree Farm63 Savills Road
2. Historic Structure

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about McLeans Island, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on McLeans Island 5 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare McLeans Island with Yaldhurst · Christchurch Airport · Russley · Broomfield · Harewood · Avonhead, same record, side by side.

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