98 Merivale Lane
4 council reports since November 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 35 Merivale Lane, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Acland House, 85 Papanui Road (237m)
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 Village Green, 402 m to the edge
- Merivale Reserve, 433 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
- Carlton Mill Riverbank, 482 m to the edge
- Little Hagley Park, 497 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Diplomat Motel, 254 m away · Motels
- Truffle Cafe, 255 m away · Cafés
- Merivale Court Motel, 261 m away · Motels
- KraiSoft, 269 m away · IT & software
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near Webb St, 275 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Webb St, 290 m away · route 1, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 9 May 2025 This section of Merivale Lane floods every time it rains heavily
Pavement - General, 15 Jan 2024 The flooding and elevated manhole tops issues in Merivale Lane that have been brought to CCC attention previously are unresolved and yet I h
- Flooding, 24 Nov 2023
- Flooding, 5 Nov 2023
Elsewhere on Merivale Lane
- 35 Merivale Lane, 10 reports
- 154 Merivale Lane, 8 reports
- 120 Merivale Lane, 7 reports
- 56 Merivale Lane, 5 reports
- 86 Merivale Lane, 4 reports
- 75 Merivale Lane, 4 reports
- 70A Merivale Lane, 4 reports
- 109 Merivale Lane, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Merivale Lane in 9 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.
Merivale Lane, 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 November 2023, most often flooding (3), pavement - general (1).
Merivale, Christchurch, on Merivale Lane.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwelling and Setting, Acland House.
Merivale Village Green, 402 m to its edge.

