12A Saracen Avenue
3 council reports since February 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 31 Saracen Avenue, 7 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
- Glen Oaks Reserve, 18 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Styx Mill Conservation Reserve, 100 m to the edge · Regional · 63 ha
- Lassiter Reserve, 128 m to the edge
- Waterford Reserve, 163 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 71 pieces
- Beechwood Reserve, 236 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Saracen Ave near Mahlet St, 59 m away · route 107
- Saracen Ave near Handel Cl, 113 m away · route 107
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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Northwood ran about $530 a week, $20 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- General Request, 1
- Accessibility, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 12 May 2025 It’s about three months since I sent the last photo - still no action though. The docks are seeding beautifully adding to the problem !! Tha
Pavement - Damaged, 5 Mar 2025 Tree Roots breaking pavers. Major tripping and falling hazard and is a health and safety issue. Can this please be urgently looked at. I and
Accessibility, 17 Feb 2025 This park is so untidy and seeding everywhere- even as late as 2016 when the last photo I took of the mown park - it was clear right to the
Elsewhere on Saracen Avenue
- 31 Saracen Avenue, 7 reports
- 20 Saracen Avenue, 6 reports
- 27 Saracen Avenue, 4 reports
- 25 Saracen Avenue, 4 reports
- 3 Saracen Avenue, 3 reports
- 29 Saracen Avenue, 3 reports
- 16C Saracen Avenue, 3 reports
- 29–31 Saracen Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Saracen Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Harewood 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.
Saracen Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Northwood → · 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 February 2025, most often pavement - damaged (1), general request (1), accessibility (1).
Northwood, Christchurch, on Saracen Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Glen Oaks Reserve, 18 m to its edge, 2 ha.