129 Hawford Road
8 council reports since August 2017, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 131 Hawford Road, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, The Hollies, 188 Richardson Terrace (171m)
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
- Risingholme Park, 159 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
- Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 210 m to the edge
- Hansen Park, 358 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Monro Playground, 424 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Opawa Bakery & Cafe, 40 m away · Cafés
- Love Me Again Vintage, 44 m away · Clothing
- Fox Hair, 47 m away · Hairdressers
- Opawa Cycles, 49 m away · Bike shops
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 158 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 174 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 251 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Ginkgo Biloba This Tree Was Planted to Commemorate the Work, 230 m away ·
GINKGO BILOBA THIS TREE WAS PLANTED TO COMMEMORATE THE WORK OF DOROTHY RANGI CRUMPTON DIRE
· 2009
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 Opawa ran about $555 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Nov 2025 Graffiti on fence
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Oct 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Feb 2024 Behind carport ar back of shopping centre rubbish and tree dumped. No one seems to clean this up.
Litter, 17 Dec 2023
Rubbish/Recycling, 30 Jan 2022 Inside the Opawa Mall area, though the Hawford Rd entrance - near Opawa Cafe
Graffiti, 30 Oct 2017
Graffiti, 25 Aug 2017
Graffiti, 9 Aug 2017
Elsewhere on Hawford Road
- 131 Hawford Road, 10 reports
- 135 Hawford Road, 8 reports
- 11 Hawford Road, 8 reports
- 87 Hawford Road, 7 reports
- 2 Hawford Road, 7 reports
- 81 Hawford Road, 6 reports
- 73 Hawford Road, 5 reports
- 127 Hawford Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hawford Road in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Hawford Road, the whole record → · Everything about Opawa → · 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
8 council reports on record since August 2017, most often graffiti (3), dumped rubbish (2), rubbish/recycling (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Hawford Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, The Hollies.
Risingholme Park, 159 m to its edge, 2 ha.




