20 Waterford Avenue
4 council reports since February 2020, 3 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, 31 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 71 pieces
- Northwood Park, 133 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
- Mounter Reserve, 195 m to the edge
- Glen Oaks Reserve, 221 m to the edge · 2 ha
- 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.
On the doorstep
- Wilcox & King, 284 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
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, 207 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Nov 2025 Approx 3 years ago the council spent thousands of dollars clearing out the reeds from the lake at the Waterford Reserve. The contractor told
Overgrown Vegetation, 4 Mar 2025 These photos are to go with the Snap Send Solve number 5972522
- Park - General Request, 19 Feb 2023
Parks, 16 Feb 2020
I don't know if the council do anything about the two dead ducks in the Waterford Reserve lake. They are in the lake approximately opposite
Elsewhere on Waterford Avenue
- 5 Waterford Avenue, 10 reports
- 1 Waterford Avenue, 7 reports
- 19 Waterford Avenue, 6 reports
- 17 Waterford Avenue, 6 reports
- 15 Waterford Avenue, 6 reports
- 62 Waterford Avenue, 5 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
4 council reports on record since February 2020, most often overgrown vegetation (2), parks (1), park - general request (1).
Northwood, Christchurch, on Waterford Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Waterford Reserve, 31 m to its edge, 2 ha.

