497 Papanui Road
7 council reports since July 2020, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 500 Papanui Road, 9 reports on file.
On the register here
- St Paul's Church Graveyard (121m)
- St Paul's Church and Setting (149m)
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, 33 m to the edge · Botanic
- St James Park, 174 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Papanui Stream Esplanade, 417 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Papanui Service Centre, 381 m away · Service centre
- Papanui Library, 384 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Thirsty Liquor, 7 m away · Bottle stores
- Cleveland Chinese Takeaways, 11 m away · Fast food
- Chen Wah Wahh, 13 m away · Restaurants
- Samurai Bowl Papanui, 13 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 195 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 212 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 244 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 256 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 267 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
- Papanui Memorial Reserve in Recognition of the Partnership, 43 m away ·
Papanui Memorial Reserve In recognition of the partnership of the Shirley/Papanui Communit
· 2006 - This Stone Was Laid by W. J. Walter Chairman Waimari County, 50 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY W. J. WALTER CHAIRMAN WAIMARI COUNTY COUNCIL APRIL 8TH 1922 C. B. H
· 2006 - Planted in Recognition of the Contribution to the Papanui, 57 m away ·
PLANTED IN RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PAPANUI COMMUNITY BY ERN DALE 1910 - 197
· 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 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Jun 2025 On bike store carpark wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Jun 2025 On shop front Papanui Rd next to vegetable shop
Graffiti, 2 Feb 2024 On wall car park for bike shop
Graffiti, 27 Jan 2024 495 Papanui Rd - west wall of Thirsty Liquor building
- Pavement - Damaged, 30 Jul 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 30 Jul 2023
Rubbish/Recycling, 13 Jul 2020 3rd or 4th time i have reported rubbish behind the liquor store. I understand this is private property but me and other staff have had to cl
Elsewhere on Papanui Road
- 500 Papanui Road, 9 reports
- 501 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 471 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 485 Papanui Road, 7 reports
- 453 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 July 2020, most often pavement - damaged (2), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti (2).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Papanui Road.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, St Paul's Church Graveyard, St Paul's Church and Setting.
Papanui Memorial Reserve, 33 m to its edge.