17 Waterford Avenue
6 council reports since November 2018, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 5 Waterford Avenue, 10 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
- Waterford Reserve, you are in it · 2 ha · playground, 71 pieces
- Northwood Park, 96 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
- Mounter Reserve, 115 m to the edge
- Beechwood Reserve, 171 m to the edge
- Glen Oaks Reserve, 235 m to the edge · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Wilcox & King, 367 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Northwood Blvd near Mounter Ave, 125 m away · route 27
- Northwood, 140 m away · route 27
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.
The remembered names nearby
- Proudly Dontared by Northwood Residents Assosiation, 164 m away ·
PROUDLY DONTARED BY NORTHWOOD RESIDENTS ASSOSIATION/ BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY/ O
· 2015 - Proudly Dontared by Northwood Residents Assosiation, 213 m away ·
PROUDLY DONTARED BY NORTHWOOD RESIDENTS ASSOSIATION/ BY THE COMMUNITY FOR THE COMMUNITY/ O
· 2015
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 Northwood ran about $530 a week, $20 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Parks, 1
- Park - General Request, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Sign, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 15 Feb 2026 This flax on the Waterford reserve is a real safety issue. Children are playing on this reserve most days with a ball or feeding the ducks.
Damaged Street Sign, 16 Jan 2025 Faded street sign in Northwood as other signs in the subdivision are. Northwood is now 24 years old .
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Jul 2023
- Facility - General Request, 11 Jul 2023
Graffiti, 3 Jan 2020
corner of Waterford Ave and Redfern Street, Northwood.
Parks, 23 Nov 2018
The lake in Waterford Reserve is covered in weed, every day it is getting worse. I believe that it can be sprayed without affecting the wild
Elsewhere on Waterford Avenue
- 5 Waterford Avenue, 10 reports
- 1 Waterford Avenue, 7 reports
- 19 Waterford Avenue, 6 reports
- 15 Waterford Avenue, 6 reports
- 62 Waterford Avenue, 5 reports
- 20 Waterford Avenue, 4 reports
- 7 Waterford Avenue, 3 reports
- 2 Waterford Avenue, 2 reports
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.
Waterford 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
6 council reports on record since November 2018, most often parks (1), park - general request (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Northwood, Christchurch, on Waterford Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Waterford Reserve, the address is inside it, 2 ha.