142 Rugby Street
9 council reports since September 2022, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 39 Rugby Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Long Cottage, 10/142 Rugby Street (28m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Orana, 146 Papanui Road (85m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Amwell, 166 Papanui Road (103m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Te Wepu, 122 Papanui Road (191m)
- Former St Albans Automatic Telephone Exchange and Setting, 29 St Albans Street (225m)
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, 79 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
- Issimo, 86 m away · Shoes
- Six Ounces Cafe, 91 m away · Cafés
- Expression Tattoo Studio, 109 m away · Tattoo & piercing
- Satchmo, 115 m away · Hairdressers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near St Albans St, 8 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Rugby St, 40 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, 84 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 16 Jul 2026 Can you request owner 7/142 Rugby Street to prune back ivy that is growing across the footpath. Thanks
Road Signage, 16 Jul 2026 Roading metal frame left on footpath from recent roadworks. Please collect thanks
Litter, 3 Mar 2025 Rubbish left after bin collection Friday
Litter, 24 Feb 2025 Glass shattered over road and pavement
Graffiti somewhere else, 15 Apr 2024- Pavement - Damaged, 30 Jul 2023
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 4 Mar 2023
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 15 Nov 2022
Pavement - Damaged, 3 Sept 2022 Hello councilperson My record will show I have reported this damage before. It seems to be taking a very long time to repair. So that the
Elsewhere on Rugby Street
- 39 Rugby Street, 73 reports
- 34 Rugby Street, 20 reports
- 27 Rugby Street, 16 reports
- 1 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 September 2022, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), pavement - damaged (2), litter (2).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Rugby Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Long Cottage, Dwelling and Setting, Orana.
Merivale Village Green, 79 m to its edge.





