85 Office Road
3 council reports since March 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 40 Office Road, 43 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, 239 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
- Merivale Village Green, 328 m to the edge
- Elmwood Park, 451 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Studio 125 Gallery, 248 m away · Galleries
- Public tennis court, 258 m away · Sports centres
- Elmwood Players, 259 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Salmon Heaven, 259 m away · Delis
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near St Albans St, 383 m away · route 1, route 95
- Merivale Mall, 388 m away · route 1, route 95, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 427 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Merivale, 451 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
Damaged Street Sign, 17 Jan 2026 Street sign for Aikmans Rd and Akela St has been damaged and moved to this location on Office Rd.
Water Supply, 29 Apr 2020Water Supply, 8 Mar 2020
Elsewhere on Office Road
- 40 Office Road, 43 reports
- 42 Office Road, 23 reports
- 36 Office Road, 10 reports
- 133 Office Road, 9 reports
- 56 Office Road, 8 reports
- 150 Office Road, 8 reports
- 89 Office Road, 7 reports
- 55 Office Road, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Office Road in 10 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.
Office 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
3 council reports on record since March 2020, most often water supply (2), damaged street sign (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Office Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Merivale Reserve, 239 m to its edge.

