74 Butler Street
7 council reports since March 2018, 7 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 (134m)
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, 57 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Heathcote Riverbank Reserve, 259 m to the edge
- King George V Reserve, 321 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Fifield Reserve, 408 m to the edge
- Hillsborough Park, 492 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, 180 m away · B&Bs
- Barbara Rennie Podiatry, 226 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, 51 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 179 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 240 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Opawa, 245 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, 122 m away
- In Loving Memory of / Mark Cowling, 225 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 9 Aug 2025 Blocked storm water drain. This was reported a year ago and hasn't been fixed. A Higgins contractor looked down the drain a few weeks ago bu
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 3 Jul 2024 Blocked storm water drain
Dumped Rubbish, 6 Feb 2024 A car door with broken glass dumped here
Parks, 7 Dec 2020 de
Wastewater/Stormwater, 28 Feb 2019
2x blocked storm water drains caused road surface flooding during recent rain. Drains are located outside 74 Butler St and on opposite side
Wastewater/Stormwater, 29 Sept 2018
2x blocked storm water drains causing road surface flooding during rain events. Drains are located outside 74 Butler St and on opposite sid
Wastewater/Stormwater, 23 Mar 2018
2x blocked storm water drains causing road surface flooding during rain events. Drains are located outside 74 Butler St and on opposite sid
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
- 62 Butler Street, 7 reports
- 20 Butler Street, 7 reports
- 70 Butler Street, 6 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
7 council reports on record since March 2018, most often wastewater/stormwater (3), street gutters / storm water (2), parks (1).
Opawa, Christchurch, on Butler Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Fifield.
Hansen Park, 57 m to its edge, 12 ha.



