500 Papanui Road
9 council reports since July 2022, 8 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Papanui Road.
On the register here
- St Paul's Church Graveyard (119m)
- St Paul's Church and Setting (144m)
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, you are in it · Botanic
- St James Park, 180 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Papanui Stream Esplanade, 381 m to the edge
- Bridgestone Drainage Reserve, 493 m to the edge · 1 ha
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, 324 m away · Service centre
- Papanui Library, 328 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Brazooka, 40 m away · Restaurants
- Little Taipei, 42 m away · Restaurants
- BBQ Brazil Papanui, 42 m away · Restaurants
- R&S Trade Centre, 43 m away · Trade
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harewood Rd near Restell St, 119 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Main Nth Rd near Loftus St, 126 m away · route 1, route 27, route 95, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 191 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 205 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 216 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 231 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 260 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
- Planted in Recognition of the Contribution to the Papanui, 6 m away ·
PLANTED IN RECOGNITION OF THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE PAPANUI COMMUNITY BY ERN DALE 1910 - 197
· 2006 - Rotary Club of Papanui / 25th Anniversary / 1983, 6 m away ·
ROTARY CLUB OF PAPANUI / 25th ANNIVERSARY / 1983
· 2013 - Rotary Club of Papanui / 25th Anniversary / 1983, 6 m away ·
ROTARY CLUB OF PAPANUI / 25th ANNIVERSARY / 1983
· 2013
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
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2
- Graffiti, 2
- Roads - General, 1
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Sign, 15 Dec 2025 The street sign for Papanui Road needs re-securing to the pole. Location at intersection with Horner Street.
Pavement - Damaged, 30 Sept 2025 There is a hole in the footpath, which is a trip hazard.
Roads - General, 2 Oct 2024 This traffic light had failed on 01/10/24 at about 8:31 am. However, on 02/10/24 at about 8:32 am it seemed to be working fine. Location Ha
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Oct 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 30 Sept 2024 Orion box by toilets Horner Street
Dumped Rubbish, 15 Sept 2024 Now the toilets are locked this tosser is dumping all his presumably stolen acquisitions outside instead.
Facility - General Request, 1 Jan 2024 Flooding from fountain risks damaging lawn, obstructing path and wasting water
- Graffiti, 28 Jul 2023
Graffiti, 22 Jul 2022 On the rubbish bin by park bench
Elsewhere on Papanui Road
- 501 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 471 Papanui Road, 8 reports
- 497 Papanui Road, 7 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
9 council reports on record since July 2022, most often graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti (2), roads - general (1).
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, the address is inside it.