68 St James Avenue
2 council reports since September 2019, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 5 St James Avenue, 6 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, 382 m to the edge · Botanic
- Marble Wood Reserve, 478 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
- CanNZ Tours, 146 m away · Attractions
- Christchurch Fine Violins, 146 m away · Musical Instrument
- Papanui RSA Market, 287 m away · Markets
- RSA Papanui, 337 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Harewood Rd near Restell St, 336 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Harewood Rd near St James Ave, 374 m away · route 27, route 125, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 144 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 164 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 317 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 385 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 401 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
- These Gates Were Erected to the Memory of the Rev., 241 m away ·
THESE GATES WERE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. T. N. GRIFFIN BY WHOSE EFFORTS THIS PAR
· 2003
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
- Parks, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 20 Jul 2025 Big dog poo on barked area of st James playground
Parks, 18 Sept 2019
Elsewhere on St James Avenue
- 5 St James Avenue, 6 reports
- 94A St James Avenue, 2 reports
- 16 St James Avenue, 2 reports
- 14 St James Avenue, 2 reports
- 115 St James Avenue, 2 reports
- 111 St James Avenue, 2 reports
- 97 St James Avenue, 1 report
- 84 St James Avenue, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names St James Avenue in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.
St 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
2 council reports on record since September 2019, most often parks (1), dumped rubbish (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on St 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.