68 Opawa Road
5 council reports since August 2019, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 124 Opawa Road, 17 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan, 64 Opawa Road (89m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Roxburghe, 41D Opawa Road (242m)
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, 235 m to the edge
- Risingholme Park, 341 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
- Opawa Bowling Club, 138 m away · Sports centres
- Z, 284 m away · Petrol stations
- Alpine Ice Sports and Entertainment Centre, 291 m away · Attractions
- Christchurch Community Corrections (Ensors Road), 300 m away · Government
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Ensors Rd, 64 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Ensors Rd, 79 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, 3 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 86 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 293 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 310 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
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Graffiti somewhere else, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Feb 2026- General Request, 6 Nov 2025
this roundabout should be changed to lights because of the way the train tracks affect the lights on brougham st. we need a long green after
Graffiti somewhere else, 22 Apr 2024 Give way sign has graffiti
Graffiti, 14 Feb 2020
concrete block black painted graffiti. Cleaning needed
Roading/Streets, 1 Aug 2019
There is a large amount of polystyrene beads spilled on the Opawa Road roundabout, they would be an environmental hazard to the waterways an
Elsewhere on Opawa Road
- 124 Opawa Road, 17 reports
- 147 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 118 Opawa Road, 15 reports
- 97L Opawa Road, 14 reports
- 135 Opawa Road, 13 reports
- 150A Opawa Road, 12 reports
- 114 Opawa Road, 10 reports
- 76 Opawa Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Opawa Road in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 5 seriously hurt.
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.
Opawa 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
5 council reports on record since August 2019, most often roading/streets (1), graffiti somewhere else (1), graffiti (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Opawa Road.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Cardowan, Dwelling and Setting, Roxburghe.
Acorn Reserve, 235 m to its edge.

