5 Ford Road
3 council reports since February 2019, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 46 Ford Road, 62 reports on file.
On the register here
- 9 Ford Road, 9 Ford Road (23m)
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme, 22 Cholmondeley Avenue (130m)
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, 45 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
- Fifield Reserve, 252 m to the edge
- Acorn Reserve, 377 m to the edge
- Hansen Park, 469 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 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 Tennis, 221 m away · Sports centres
- Barbara Rennie Podiatry, 382 m away · Podiatrists
- Opawa Bakery & Cafe, 384 m away · Cafés
- Kowhai Vet, 392 m away · Vets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 308 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 331 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 36 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 63 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 170 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 313 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
- Douglas S. Laird 1925 — 2004, 77 m away ·
DOUGLAS S. LAIRD 1925 — 2004
· 2009 - Risingholme Community Centre Inc. 1944 — 1994 This Plaque, 124 m away ·
RISINGHOLME COMMUNITY CENTRE INC. 1944 — 1994 This plaque was unveiled by Vicki Buck, Mayo
· 2009 - J. R. McKenzie Gave Risingholme to This City 1943, 141 m away ·
J. R. McKENZIE GAVE RISINGHOLME TO THIS CITY 1943
· 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
- Water Leak, 2
- Parks, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 12 Apr 2025 Always wet. Must be a leak
Water Leak, 6 Apr 2025 Leaking from toby
Parks, 11 Feb 2019
Brust water pipe in garden
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
3 council reports on record since February 2019, most often water leak (2), parks (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Ford Road.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, 9 Ford Road, Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme.
Risingholme Park, 45 m to its edge, 2 ha.