2 Papanui Road
10 council reports since March 2019, 10 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 258 Papanui Road, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwellings and Setting, Maisonettes, 12 Bealey Avenue (66m)
- Knox Church, 28 Bealey Avenue (73m)
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Santa Barbara, 169 Victoria Street (110m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, 20 Papanui Road (114m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 122 Park Terrace (195m)
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
- Hagley Park North, 165 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
- Carlton Mill Riverbank, 189 m to the edge
- Little Hagley Park, 206 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sun Dog Diner, 3 m away · Restaurants
- mtf Finance, 10 m away · Financial
- Gatherings, 14 m away · Restaurants
- Alfred Wine Bar, 23 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bealey Ave, 65 m away · route 1, route 95
- Bealey Ave, 133 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 20 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 155 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 173 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 220 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Little Hagley Park plaque, 228 m away · 2009
- Little Hagley Park plaque, 236 m away · 1998
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 10 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 18 Mar 2026 Water is bubbling out of the yellow box on Papanui Road on the east side where the traffic drives over it . Water was splashed onto the foot
Poles and Signage - General, 29 Aug 2024 Green ped crossing light is facing the wrong way and swinging in the wind. It's pole 14 at Papanui/Beasley intersection. The green man shoul
Pit and Equipment - General, 11 Aug 2022 Does not make crossing noise
Graffiti, 2 Jul 2022 White paint tags on reverse side of road direction sign on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Papanui Road.
Graffiti, 2 Jul 2022 5 partly torn anti vax misinformation sticky tags on pedestrians traffic controller on the corner of Bealey Avenue and Papanui Road need com
Graffiti, 17 Apr 2022 3 anti vax sticky tags on pedestrians traffic controller pole on the corner of Papanui Road and Bealey Avenue need removal.
Graffiti, 17 Apr 2022 3 anti vax sticky tags on pedestrians traffic controller pole on the corner of Papanui Road and Bealey Avenue need removal.
Graffiti, 23 Jul 2021 On wall of building near carpark
Roading/Streets, 21 Jul 2020 "No U-turn" sign needs to be reattached\tightened and oriented correctly. On the western median, facing east. I couldn't take better photos
Roading/Streets, 8 Mar 2019
Red aspect not working, northbound
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 Innes ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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
10 council reports on record since March 2019, most often graffiti (5), roading/streets (2), water leak (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Papanui Road.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwellings and Setting, Maisonettes, Knox Church.
Hagley Park North, 165 m to its edge, 91 ha.