68 Butler Street
5 council reports since November 2018, 5 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 (145m)
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, 53 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 277 m to the edge
- King George V Reserve, 294 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Fifield Reserve, 427 m to the edge
- Hillsborough Park, 475 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, 156 m away · B&Bs
- Barbara Rennie Podiatry, 242 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, 38 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 118 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 151 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 255 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 256 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
- Heathcote Riverbank Tr South plaque, 107 m away
- In Loving Memory of / Mark Cowling, 196 m away ·
In loving memory of/ Mark Cowling/ 18.12.76 - 6.9.20/ a dedicated family man, who is/ sore
· 2006
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 5 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Feb 2025 The yellow bin hasn't been completely emptied. This is an ongoing issue. The items are loose in the bin so should come out easily. Last time
Rubbish and Bins - General, 14 Jan 2025 Our yellow bin has been partially emptied twice now over the last few weeks. The cardboard is loose in the bin so the problem isn't that too
Water Supply, 24 Jul 2019
submain burst
Water Supply, 30 Jun 2019
submain burst
Flooding, 4 Nov 2018
This drain and one on opposite of street have been block throughout this past year and continue to flood road during rain events.
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
5 council reports on record since November 2018, most often water supply (2), rubbish and bins - general (2), flooding (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Butler Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Fifield.
Hansen Park, 53 m to its edge, 12 ha.

