163 Heaton Street
3 council reports since February 2017, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Heaton Street, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Damsels, 283 Papanui Road (158m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 236 Papanui Road (196m)
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
- Elmwood Park, 360 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
- Georgio's Cafe @ St Georges Hospital, 100 m away · Cafés
- Canon Wilford Wing, 102 m away · Business
- Intus Specialist Health Care, 109 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Milford Chambers, 116 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near Heaton St, 97 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Milford St, 119 m away · route 1, route 95, route 100
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, 446 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 490 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 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Street Light Outage, 5 Nov 2025 LED street light not working
Poles and Signage - General, 24 Feb 2025 Incomplete signage. Need anothercsign
Graffiti, 25 Feb 2017
Elsewhere on Heaton Street
- 25 Heaton Street, 20 reports
- 83 Heaton Street, 8 reports
- 7 Heaton Street, 7 reports
- 54 Heaton Street, 6 reports
- 81 Heaton Street, 5 reports
- 68 Heaton Street, 5 reports
- 170 Heaton Street, 5 reports
- 1 Heaton Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Heaton Street in 28 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.
Heaton 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
3 council reports on record since February 2017, most often street light outage (1), poles and signage - general (1), graffiti (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Heaton Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Damsels, Dwelling and Setting.
Elmwood Park, 360 m to its edge, 7 ha.

