138 Main North Road
4 council reports since January 2020, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 154A Main North Road, 17 reports on file.
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
- Withers Family Park, 59 m to the edge
- Papanui Pool Reserve, 268 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Shearer Playground, 300 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
- Ramore Reserve, 302 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Papanui Court Motel, 48 m away · Motels
- Northlands Medical and Sports Care, 214 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Northlands Animal Care Hospital, 215 m away · Vets
- Main North Road Medical Centre, 276 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main North Rd near Vagues Rd, 47 m away · route 1, route 27, route 95, route 107, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Main North Rd near Meadow St, 51 m away · route 1, route 27, route 95, route 107, route 125, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 7 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 183 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 209 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 487 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in PAPANUI ran about $572 a week, $22 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 26 Jun 2026 on stop sign at Vagues Rd Main North Rd, on pedestrian island
Litter, 21 Jun 2026 We witnessed the driver littering (a Fastfood cup with straw and lid) from Dark Blue 2009 Mazda Atenza as they were driving North on Main No
Water Leak, 8 Feb 2021 Minor water leak. cnr vagues road and main north road.
Graffiti, 3 Jan 2020
Elsewhere on Main North Road
- 154A Main North Road, 17 reports
- 94 Main North Road, 16 reports
- 133 Main North Road, 14 reports
- 147C Main North Road, 12 reports
- 140 Main North Road, 11 reports
- 107B Main North Road, 10 reports
- 93 Main North Road, 9 reports
- 18C Main North Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 119 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 19 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Papanui ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Main North Road, the whole record → · Everything about PAPANUI → · 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
4 council reports on record since January 2020, most often water leak (1), litter (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Main North Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Withers Family Park, 59 m to its edge.


