68 Heaton Street
5 council reports since May 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Heaton Street, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 70 Heaton Street (36m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 74 Heaton Street (46m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 61 Leinster Road (119m)
- Elmwood Park (136m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 41 Leinster Road (150m)
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, 48 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
- Merivale Reserve, 412 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
- Old Boys Collegians Cricket Club, 166 m away · Sports centres
- Elmwood Park Bowling Club, 210 m away · Clubs
- Elmwood Tennis Club, 210 m away · Clubs
- Repertory Theatre, 249 m away · Cinemas & theatres
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, the line crosses here · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 37 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 180 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 216 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 306 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
- Kings Silver Jubilee / 1935 / Planted by Puples, 23 m away ·
Kings Silver jubilee/ 1935/ Planted by puples of/ Elmwood School
- In Loving Memory / Maude and Ernie M'Ewan, 132 m away ·
In loving memory / Maude and Ernie M'Ewan
· 2013 - In Loving Memory of / Peter Andrew Sharp, 208 m away ·
In Loving Memory Of/ Peter Andrew Sharp/ 11.8.1939 - 18.2.2012
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 3 on record
What’s on record
- Vandalism - General, 16 Sept 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Dec 2022
Dumped Rubbish, 7 Sept 2022 Looks like parts from a car accident left on footpath
Graffiti, 13 Nov 2020 building under repair? but fence very much tagged and unsightly
Parks, 11 May 2020 unable to lock gate at Elmwood chain is to short
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
- 170 Heaton Street, 5 reports
- 1 Heaton Street, 5 reports
- 85 Heaton Street, 4 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
5 council reports on record since May 2020, most often vandalism - general (1), parks (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Heaton Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Elmwood Park, 48 m to its edge, 7 ha.


