45 Rugby Street
4 council reports since March 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 39 Rugby Street, 73 reports on file.
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 Reserve, 31 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Public tennis court, 41 m away · Sports centres
- Elmwood Players, 246 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Repertory Theatre, 248 m away · Cinemas & theatres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Rossall St near Office Rd, 240 m away · route 8
- Rossall St near Office Rd, 265 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 242 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 496 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.
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 16 Jun 2025 Hello , there has been very positive improvement to the planting in the Merivale Reserve.?? Could consideration be given to Cleaning up the
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 16 Jun 2025 Hello Please see vandalism to the artistic sculptures in the Merivale Reserve. Could consideration be given to repairing/replacing the dama
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 16 Jun 2025 Hello There is a tag on the wooden facing of the seat next to the tennis court in the Merivale Reserve playground area. Could considerati
Abandoned Vehicle, 29 Mar 2025 Hi This car has been parked here since mid Feb. it has been ticketed, rego has expired, appears to be abandoned.
Elsewhere on Rugby Street
- 39 Rugby Street, 73 reports
- 34 Rugby Street, 20 reports
- 27 Rugby Street, 16 reports
- 142 Rugby Street, 9 reports
- 1 Rugby Street, 9 reports
- 39-43 Rugby Street, 5 reports
- 65A 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
4 council reports on record since March 2025, most often park - general request (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Rugby Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Merivale Reserve, 31 m to its edge.



