238 Linwood Avenue
2 council reports since February 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 260 Linwood Avenue, 57 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
- Linwood Park, 136 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 83 pieces
- Worcester Corner Reserve, 438 m to the edge
- Linwood Nursery, 455 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
- Linwood Service Centre, 232 m away · Service centre
- Linwood Library, 251 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Burger King, 29 m away · Fast food
- SPCA OpShop, 34 m away · Clothing
- Animates, 39 m away · Pet shops
- Linwood TAB Store, 46 m away · Venues & events
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Linwood Ave near Cashel St, 82 m away · route 5
- Aldwins Rd near Marlborough St, 90 m away · route 80, route 140, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 25 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 27 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 183 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Phillipstown ran about $490 a week, $60 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 4 Sept 2025 Traffic lights faulty. Sat through 3 cycles with a red arrow! And when it was green the cycle was only long enough to get two cars through.
Roads - General, 22 Feb 2025 Concrete spill at road junction in bike lane
Elsewhere on Linwood Avenue
- 260 Linwood Avenue, 57 reports
- 300 Linwood Avenue, 34 reports
- 252 Linwood Avenue, 31 reports
- 320 Linwood Avenue, 23 reports
- 250A Linwood Avenue, 18 reports
- 248 Linwood Avenue, 15 reports
- 250 Linwood Avenue, 3 reports
- 244 Linwood Avenue, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Linwood Avenue in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central 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.
Linwood Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Phillipstown → · 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 February 2025, most often traffic signals (1), roads - general (1).
Phillipstown, Christchurch, on Linwood Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Linwood Park, 136 m to its edge, 9 ha.

