56 Saint James Avenue
8 council reports since January 2020, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 120 Saint James Avenue, 45 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
- St James Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 88 pieces
- Papanui Memorial Reserve, 349 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Fine Violins, 85 m away · Musical Instrument
- CanNZ Tours, 175 m away · Attractions
- Papanui RSA Market, 274 m away · Markets
- Burger Fuel Papanui, 313 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harewood Rd near Restell St, 326 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Papanui Rd near Bellvue Ave, 355 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, 85 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 95 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 322 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 356 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 396 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 25 Aug 2026 on seat in st James Park near the swings, slide and see saw playground area
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 5 Jan 2025 Corner of St James park, looks likely to turn into a hidey hole for undesirables.
Playground Equipment, 16 Dec 2024 Crazy very slippery netting put on slide. Remove it and the plywood underneath and go back to the original half poles and it will be much sa
- Park - General Request, 3 May 2023
- Graffiti, 16 Dec 2022
Graffiti, 15 Jul 2022 Swing support at St James Park by see saw
Graffiti, 15 Jul 2022 On "old" playground swingb and sign by see saw..St James Park.
Graffiti, 29 Jan 2020
near playground
Elsewhere on Saint James Avenue
- 120 Saint James Avenue, 45 reports
- 118 Saint James Avenue, 44 reports
- 12A Saint James Avenue, 20 reports
- 124 Saint James Avenue, 8 reports
- 110 Saint James Avenue, 8 reports
- 67 Saint James Avenue, 7 reports
- 111 Saint James Avenue, 7 reports
- 68 Saint James Avenue, 6 reports
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.
Saint James 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
8 council reports on record since January 2020, most often graffiti (4), graffiti on a playground or in a park (2), playground equipment (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Saint James Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St James Park, the address is inside it, 4 ha.