42 Ford Road
4 council reports since September 2015, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 46 Ford Road, 62 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, The Hollies, 188 Richardson Terrace (228m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 28 m to the edge
- Hansen Park, 152 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Monro Playground, 256 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Risingholme Park, 325 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- J Mart, 178 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Gelato Lab, 193 m away · Ice cream
- Opawa Discounter, 196 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Saket Indian Restaurant, 196 m away · Restaurants
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, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 17 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 24 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 119 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 121 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.
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 4 Nov 2020
Rubbish and Bins - General, 27 Oct 2020Graffiti, 21 Mar 2016
Lift station
Roading/Streets, 16 Sept 2015
Trees overhanging over half the footpath
Elsewhere on Ford Road
- 46 Ford Road, 62 reports
- 15 Ford Road, 20 reports
- 44 Ford Road, 11 reports
- 77 Ford Road, 7 reports
- 2 Ford Road, 7 reports
- 9 Ford Road, 6 reports
- 75 Ford Road, 6 reports
- 40 Ford Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ford Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.
Ford 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
4 council reports on record since September 2015, most often water leak (1), rubbish and bins - general (1), roading/streets (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Ford Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, The Hollies.
Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 28 m to its edge.

