127 Papanui Road
6 council reports since March 2018, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 258 Papanui Road, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Te Wepu, 122 Papanui Road (77m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Orana, 146 Papanui Road (109m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Long Cottage, 10/142 Rugby Street (123m)
- Former Dwelling/ School and Setting, Former Rangi Ruru/Roseneath House, 110 Papanui Road (127m)
- Former Dwelling and Setting, 108 Papanui Road (153m)
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 Village Green, 210 m to the edge
- Abberley Park, 458 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 24 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Diplomat Motel, 38 m away · Motels
- Merivale Manor, 54 m away · Motels
- Truffle Cafe, 98 m away · Cafés
- Maison de Crepes Restaurant & Wine Lounge, 139 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near Webb St, 53 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Webb St, 56 m away · route 1, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Donated by the Merivale Precinct Society to Commemorate, 214 m away ·
DONATED BY THE MERIVALE PRECINCT SOCIETY TO COMMEMORATE THEIR 21ST ANNIVERSARY IN 1991
· 2006
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Nov 2025 Graffiti on a wall
Dumped Rubbish, 18 Apr 2025 Dumped beds
- Pavement - Damaged, 26 Jul 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 26 Jul 2023
Roading/Streets, 14 Jul 2019
Bus driver on 844 was very rude and got anger issues
Roading/Streets, 25 Mar 2018
Car parked across driveway at 125 papanui road Sunday 25th March. Incident phoned to council. Driver came several minutes later and moved ca
Elsewhere on Papanui Road
- 258 Papanui Road, 37 reports
- 165 Papanui Road, 18 reports
- 1 Papanui Road, 17 reports
- 176 Papanui Road, 16 reports
- 27 Papanui Road, 15 reports
- 177 Papanui Road, 15 reports
- 175 Papanui Road, 14 reports
- 71 Papanui Road, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Papanui Road in 160 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 27 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.
Papanui Road, 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
6 council reports on record since March 2018, most often roading/streets (2), pavement - damaged (2), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Papanui Road.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Te Wepu, Dwelling and Setting, Orana.
Merivale Village Green, 210 m to its edge.

