4 Desmond Street
4 council reports since July 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 15 Desmond Street, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 16 Helmores Lane (72m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 2 Helmores Lane (98m)
- Bridge and Setting (126m)
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
- Millbrook Reserve, 95 m to the edge · Botanic
- Little Hagley Park, 131 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
- Hagley Park North, 199 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
- Carlton Mill Riverbank, 360 m to the edge
- Mona Vale, 375 m to the edge · Botanic · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The Preservatory, 281 m away · Cafés
- Holmwood Dairy, 284 m away · Supermarkets
- Le Panier, 286 m away · Bakeries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Rossall St near Rhodes St, 171 m away · route 8
- Rossall St near Rhodes St, 186 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 147 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 149 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 177 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 229 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 236 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Loving Memory of / James Ryder Burford / 1944 - 2017, 147 m away ·
In loving memory of/ James Ryder Burford/ 1944 - 2017/ cherished father, brother,/ partner
· 2009 - Little Hagley Park plaque, 154 m away · 2017
- Little Hagley Park plaque, 175 m away · 2010
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
- Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 1
- Sediment - Construction, 1
- Roads - General, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 1 Aug 2026 Green bin cover is broken
Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 22 Feb 2025 Water meter flooded for 6 days causing flooded verge. Our irrigation technician arrived today advising it is Council problem.
Roads - General, 11 Aug 2024 This has been an ongoing issue which I was told has been on the CCC job list to return to complete this road works for a year now. I was con
Sediment - Construction, 9 Jul 2024 Property draining sediment into channel and causing blockage
Elsewhere on Desmond Street
- 15 Desmond Street, 10 reports
- 20 Desmond Street, 7 reports
- 29 Desmond Street, 4 reports
- 27 Desmond Street, 4 reports
- 10 Desmond Street, 4 reports
- 24 Desmond Street, 2 reports
- 19 Desmond Street, 2 reports
- 14 Desmond Street, 2 reports
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.
Desmond 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
4 council reports on record since July 2024, most often sewer - leak / blockage (1), sediment - construction (1), roads - general (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Desmond Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Millbrook Reserve, 95 m to its edge.