166 Matsons Avenue
2 council reports since April 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 247 Matsons Avenue, 8 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
- St James Park, 150 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Marble Wood Reserve, 284 m to the edge
- Papanui Memorial Reserve, 492 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- CanNZ Tours, 259 m away · Attractions
- Belmont on Harewood B&B, 302 m away · B&Bs
- Condell Gardens Bed and Breakfast, 335 m away · B&Bs
- Christchurch Fine Violins, 363 m away · Musical Instrument
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harewood Rd near Matsons Ave, 308 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Harewood Rd near St James Ave, 330 m away · route 27, 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, 302 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 350 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 363 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 379 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 407 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
- These Gates Were Erected to the Memory of the Rev., 229 m away ·
THESE GATES WERE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. T. N. GRIFFIN BY WHOSE EFFORTS THIS PAR
· 2003
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 PAPANUI ran about $572 a week, $22 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 2
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 6 Apr 2025 Water pouring out across footpath and into gutter. Very dangerous and slippery. Needs urgent attention
Water Leak, 4 Apr 2025 Moderate water leak at/under fence
Elsewhere on Matsons Avenue
- 247 Matsons Avenue, 8 reports
- 207 Matsons Avenue, 6 reports
- 189 Matsons Avenue, 5 reports
- 187 Matsons Avenue, 5 reports
- 200 Matsons Avenue, 4 reports
- 197 Matsons Avenue, 4 reports
- 245 Matsons Avenue, 3 reports
- 237 Matsons Avenue, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Matsons Avenue in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Matsons Avenue, 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
2 council reports on record since April 2025, most often water leak (2).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Matsons Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St James Park, 150 m to its edge, 4 ha.