42 Butler Street
2 council reports since April 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 50 Butler Street, 18 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Fifield, 14 Hawford Road (162m)
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
- Hansen Park, 31 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- King George V Reserve, 191 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 389 m to the edge
- Fifield Reserve, 447 m to the edge
- Hillsborough Park, 499 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 61 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pool House, 173 m away · B&Bs
- Barbara Rennie Podiatry, 256 m away · Podiatrists
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 65 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 73 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 124 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 249 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; 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
- In Loving Memory of / Mark Cowling, 132 m away ·
In loving memory of/ Mark Cowling/ 18.12.76 - 6.9.20/ a dedicated family man, who is/ sore
· 2006 - Heathcote Riverbank Tr South plaque, 176 m away
- H.G. Ell Memorial Gates 25 June 1984 to Commemorate, 200 m away ·
H.G. ELL MEMORIAL GATES 25 June 1984 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of H
· 2008
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 29 Jun 2026 42 Butler Street has been unlived in for over 5 years has a major water leak that is coming into the street and into the adjacent neighbour
Abandoned Vehicle, 2 Apr 2024 Abandoned car with out of date registration.
Elsewhere on Butler Street
- 50 Butler Street, 18 reports
- 48 Butler Street, 15 reports
- 8 Butler Street, 12 reports
- 16A Butler Street, 11 reports
- 40 Butler Street, 10 reports
- 74 Butler Street, 7 reports
- 62 Butler Street, 7 reports
- 20 Butler Street, 7 reports
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.
Butler Street, 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
2 council reports on record since April 2024, most often water leak (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Butler Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Fifield.
Hansen Park, 31 m to its edge, 12 ha.

