28 Papanui Road
8 council reports since December 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 258 Papanui Road, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, 20 Papanui Road (46m)
- Dwellings and Setting, Maisonettes, 12 Bealey Avenue (196m)
- Carlton Bridge (217m)
- Knox Church, 28 Bealey Avenue (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
- Carlton Mill Riverbank, 201 m to the edge
- Little Hagley Park, 220 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
- Springfield Reserve, 480 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
- Pedro's House of Lamb, 21 m away · Fast food
- De Lago Motel, 51 m away · Motels
- Liquor King, 53 m away · Bottle stores
- Jimmy's Restaurant, 55 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 184 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 235 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 261 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, 237 m away · 2009
- Little Hagley Park plaque, 243 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Litter, 18 Jul 2026 Broken glass and discarded beer
Abandoned Vehicle, 21 Jan 2025 Event happened Saturday 18th Jan (stolen vehicle/road spiked by police) Vehicle in bus lane, causes issues with bus lane operation during mo
- Damaged Road, 27 Sept 2024
follow up from previous snap send solve ID 4856846 and 5040394 The virbations have now become a serious issue for us, we are now receiving
Hazard, vehicle, 12 Jan 2024 There's a sign down on the path outside 26. Probably a bus lane sign. Thanks
Road Signage, 31 Dec 2023 sign has been removed from it's position and is now lying on curb/garden outside 28 Papanui road
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 18 Dec 2022
- Graffiti, 2 Oct 2022
Graffiti, 31 Dec 2021 Large green utility box Papanui Rd between liquor land store and rastrick st
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
8 council reports on record since December 2021, most often graffiti (2), street gutters / storm water (1), road signage (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Papanui Road.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Dwellings and Setting, Maisonettes.
Carlton Mill Riverbank, 201 m to its edge.




