1 Rugby Street
9 council reports since January 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 39 Rugby Street, 73 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
- Merivale Reserve, 164 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
- Elmwood Park, 498 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Public tennis court, 199 m away · Sports centres
- Holmwood Dairy, 340 m away · Supermarkets
- Le Panier, 340 m away · Bakeries
- The Preservatory, 341 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Rossall St near Office Rd, 59 m away · route 8
- Rossall St near Office Rd, 106 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 489 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Merivale ran about $604 a week, $54 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Pavement - Damaged, 3
- Graffiti, 2
- Water Leak, 1
- Pit and Equipment - General, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Feb 2025 Hello This overgrowing vegetation is causing annoyance to the general public who use the public foot path by obstructing the width of the
General Request, 28 Dec 2023
Graffiti, 26 Dec 2023- Graffiti, 30 Sept 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 7 Sept 2023
- Water Leak, 2 Jun 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 14 Apr 2023
- Pit and Equipment - General, 6 Mar 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 12 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Rugby Street
- 39 Rugby Street, 73 reports
- 34 Rugby Street, 20 reports
- 27 Rugby Street, 16 reports
- 142 Rugby Street, 9 reports
- 39-43 Rugby Street, 5 reports
- 65A Rugby Street, 4 reports
- 45 Rugby Street, 4 reports
- 41 Rugby Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rugby Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Fendalton ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Rugby Street, the whole record → · Everything about Merivale → · 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
9 council reports on record since January 2023, most often pavement - damaged (3), graffiti (2), water leak (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Rugby Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Merivale Reserve, 164 m to its edge.


