453 Papanui Road
7 council reports since April 2021, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 500 Papanui Road, 9 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
- Papanui Memorial Reserve, 359 m to the edge · Botanic
- St James Park, 368 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Nightingale Reserve, 399 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Papanui Dental Centre, 50 m away · Dentists
- Papanui Pharmacy, 73 m away · Chemist
- Papanui Medical Centre, 82 m away · Doctors & clinics
- BP 2go, 83 m away · Petrol stations
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Papanui Rd near Grants Rd, 20 m away · route 1, route 95
- Papanui Rd near Blighs Rd, 66 m away · route 1, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 353 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 388 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 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 30 Aug 2025 Green traffic lamp facing east bound traffic on Papanui road corner Blighs/Papanui Roads is an LED lamp which has some LED diodes not workin
Traffic Signals, 13 Apr 2025 The green light on the corner of Blighs Rd and Papanui Rd is missing some of its light
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 4 Feb 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 30 Dec 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 12 Dec 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 21 Sept 2024 Big graffiti on traffic light pole and phone box both located close next to each other
Graffiti, 14 Apr 2021 traffic signals box Papanui rd at Blighs rd
Elsewhere on Papanui Road
- 500 Papanui Road, 9 reports
- 501 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 471 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 497 Papanui Road, 7 reports
- 485 Papanui Road, 7 reports
- 416 Papanui Road, 7 reports
- 490 Papanui Road, 6 reports
- 475C Papanui Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Papanui Road in 41 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Papanui 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
7 council reports on record since April 2021, most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (3), traffic signals (2), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Papanui Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Papanui Memorial Reserve, 359 m to its edge.






