83 Rugby Street
3 council reports since April 2024, 3 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, 233 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
- Merivale Village Green, 331 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
- Public tennis court, 241 m away · Sports centres
- Holy Fudge, 297 m away · Delis
- Little India Bistro & Tandoor, 298 m away · Restaurants
- Merivale Fresh Choice, 298 m away · Supermarkets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near St Albans St, 368 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Rugby St, 382 m away · route 1, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 445 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 18 Jan 2026 Can council please replant the trees that died along this stretch of berm please. They were here for over 40 + years and at no time affected
Trees - General, 8 Feb 2025 I think this tree and one next to it (2) may be dying, can you please check and if so, remove and replant with new ones. Thank you
Pavement - Damaged, 12 Apr 2024 Please lift the pavement and get some drainage put in as you cannot walk this part of the pavement thank you. Second time sending issue
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
- 45 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
3 council reports on record since April 2024, most often trees - general (2), pavement - damaged (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Rugby Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Merivale Reserve, 233 m to its edge.


