55 Main North Road
4 council reports since July 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 154A Main North Road, 17 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 Stream Esplanade, 219 m to the edge
- Papanui Memorial Reserve, 312 m to the edge · Botanic
- Bridgestone Drainage Reserve, 340 m to the edge · 1 ha
- St James Park, 371 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Shearer Playground, 416 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
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, 194 m away · Service centre
- Papanui Library, 200 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Shine On, 19 m away · Clothing
- Rockshop, 48 m away · Musical Instrument
- Lone Star Papanui, 50 m away · Restaurants
- Hoyts Cinema Northlands, 53 m away · Cinemas & theatres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Northlands Platform C, 33 m away · route 1, route 95, route 107
- Northlands Platform D, 96 m away · route 27, 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, 83 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 275 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 302 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 313 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.
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Jul 2026 not sure who owns this utility box. if it's not council can you please advise of the owner at that the unsightly graffiti might be removed.
- Roading/Streets, 15 Sept 2021
Pedestrian lights continously turning off
Water Supply, 28 Jul 2020 running fast out of hole
Water Supply, 20 Jul 2020 leaking water valve.
Elsewhere on Main North Road
- 154A Main North Road, 17 reports
- 94 Main North Road, 16 reports
- 133 Main North Road, 14 reports
- 147C Main North Road, 12 reports
- 140 Main North Road, 11 reports
- 107B Main North Road, 10 reports
- 93 Main North Road, 9 reports
- 18C Main North Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 119 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 19 seriously hurt.
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.
Main North 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
4 council reports on record since July 2020, most often water supply (2), roading/streets (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Main North Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Papanui Stream Esplanade, 219 m to its edge.


