5 Locarno Street
7 council reports since March 2019, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 28 Locarno Street, 8 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme, 22 Cholmondeley Avenue (204m)
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
- Acorn Reserve, 120 m to the edge
- Risingholme Park, 120 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
- Fifield Reserve, 494 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
- Opawa Tennis, 81 m away · Sports centres
- Opawa Bowling Club, 376 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 90 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 101 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 20 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 47 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 94 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 123 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
- Officially Opened by E. H. Andrews, Mayor Chairman, 143 m away ·
OFFICIALLY OPENED BY E. H. ANDREWS, MAYOR CHAIRMAN OF RESERVES COMMITTEE J. N. CLARKE NOV
· 2009 - J. R. McKenzie Gave Risingholme to This City 1943, 146 m away ·
J. R. McKENZIE GAVE RISINGHOLME TO THIS CITY 1943
· 2009 - Risingholme Community Centre Inc. 1944 — 1994 This Plaque, 167 m away ·
RISINGHOLME COMMUNITY CENTRE INC. 1944 — 1994 This plaque was unveiled by Vicki Buck, Mayo
· 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 27 Jan 2026 Drain blocked
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 24 Dec 2025 Blocked stormwater drain.
Damaged Street Sign, 21 Jul 2025 School road sign in pieces, pole missing from Fifield Terrace, sign and fittings a few metres away on Locarno Street, as per photos. The Fif
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 7 Jan 2025
Flooding, 20 Dec 2024 When it rains this drain blocks and overflows, this photo today is after light rain, with heavy rain the street fully floods. So in light ra
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 5 Mar 2023
Graffiti, 15 Mar 2019
Elsewhere on Locarno Street
- 28 Locarno Street, 8 reports
- 48 Locarno Street, 2 reports
- 26 Locarno Street, 2 reports
- 9 Locarno Street, 1 report
- 52 Locarno Street, 1 report
- 50 Locarno Street, 1 report
- 29 Locarno Street, 1 report
- 24B Locarno Street, 1 report
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.
Locarno 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
7 council reports on record since March 2019, most often street gutters / storm water (3), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1), graffiti (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Locarno Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwelling and Setting, Risingholme.
Acorn Reserve, 120 m to its edge.