39 Richards Avenue
1 council report since May 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 21 Richards Avenue, 5 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
- Marble Wood Reserve, 195 m to the edge
- Edgar Macintosh Park, 421 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 58 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Bar 88, 268 m away · Restaurants
- Ignition Health, 270 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Sweet, 272 m away · Sweets & snacks
- Aratapu Preschool and Whanau Hub, 277 m away · Childcare
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harewood Rd near Wilmot St, 251 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Harewood Rd near Wilmot St, 271 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 PAPANUI ran about $572 a week, $22 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Flooding, 1
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 1 May 2025 Flooding across road, drains appear blocked/overwhelmed.
Elsewhere on Richards Avenue
- 21 Richards Avenue, 5 reports
- 19 Richards Avenue, 3 reports
- 30 Richards Avenue, 2 reports
- 26 Richards Avenue, 2 reports
- 15A Richards Avenue, 2 reports
- 9 Richards Avenue, 1 report
- 8 Richards Avenue, 1 report
- 51 Richards Avenue, 1 report
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.
Richards 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
1 council report on record since May 2025, most often flooding (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Richards Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Marble Wood Reserve, 195 m to its edge.