Pavement - DamagedBarnett Park 200A Main Road
concrete around drain near Moa preschool coming away from asphalt
Redcliffs, Christchurch
2,455 council reports since July 2015, the 57th busiest suburb in the city. 1,812 photographs on record. 2,150 people at the 2023 Census, 1,134 to the square kilometre across 1.9 km².
The record also holds about $700 a week to rent· 2023 Census snapshot· 1,812 photographs· 33 old photographs· 1 school· 11 parks· 2 places of worship· 1 track· 2 names on the map· 14.6% of the outline mapped liquefied· 5.7% of the outline in the red zone· graded mostly TC2 in 2011· the record drew water over 47% of the outline· the mapped tsunami reach covers 24% of the outline· slope-hazard bands cover 14% of the outline· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 100% of the outline· ecological sites over 2% of the outline· landscape schedules over 23% of the outline· high flood hazard over 3% of the outline· setback strips over 9% of the outline· 1% of the outline inside the plan’s density overlays· 2,207 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 6.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 15 remembered names on this ground· 8 drawn rules bind this ground· 7 parcels on the dangerous-work register· 88 parcels of made ground· 242 surveyed rocks· 1 parcels with a cleanup on file· the 2019 model grades this ground mostly unlikely· 1 engineered defences· 32 council structures on the register· 18 recreation register records· 396 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 1% of the outline reserved· the plan’s exceptions touch 6% of the outline· 3 places on the heritage schedule· 18 epicentres inside the outline· 48 injury crashes· 268 recorded victimisations· 8 bus stops· 22 businesses· the council’s fix times· 4 heritage places· 40 documents· 5 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$700/week
middle half $560–$1,050
New bonds here ran at about $700 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $560 and $1,050, across 9 bonds lodged, up 10% on a year ago. That’s about $150 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Redcliffs” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
The ground: 6% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 15% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 11 parks, 2 places of worship, 1 track and 8 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 325 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 9 October 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 17 November 2022, 20 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 2,061 people and 891 occupied private households in the “Redcliffs” statistical area, grouped from 12 SA1 areas. This exact statistical-area match is close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas26% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity92% of ethnicity responses
- Māori ethnicity7% of ethnicity responses
- Pacific Peoples ethnicity1% of ethnicity responses
- Asian ethnicity5% of ethnicity responses
- Households with internet90% of stated households
- Households with two or more vehicles63% of stated households
Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.
Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.
About the suburb
Redcliffs is an outer coastal suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.
As reported 1,812 on record
The suburb, back then 33 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Redcliffs
- Redcliffs enters the written record on 2 August 1876, “WAIMATE ROAD BOAED. (Timaru Herald, 02 August 1876)”, Papers Past.
- “Redcliffs” appears somewhere in 402 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: parks, 12 July 2015, at 202.
- Its busiest day on record was 17 November 2022, 20 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Main Road, reported on 393 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
General Request30 Raekura Pl
There is usually a padlock on this gate with CCC and the Pottery Club having the key. This lock is gone and now the gate provides easy access to the overgrown…
Public Toilet138–140 McCormacks Bay Rd
There is no tap in the public loo on the park - toilets could do with a good clean
Hazard, vehicle18 Omeo Cres
5 years of illegally parked motorhome & still waiting for its removal, fine. And here it is again. PBM129. Can Omeo Crescent have the beautification category…
Overgrown Vegetation128 Main Rd
Grass at the park is totally overgrown with weeds, also the gardens need spraying
Park - General Request111 Bay View Rd
Barnett Park fence is damaged has a temp fix in place needs permanent repair
Animal - DomesticCanterbury
Sheep amongst new plantings in Barnett Park. Eating bark of established plants so these are likely to die
Water General18A Augusta St
Our water metre has been played with and they turned down the pressure then broke off the tap. Now the house pressure is terrible.
Overgrown Vegetation39 Beachville Road
Is the council planning on spraying the weeds that are growing up the seawall on the Coastal Pathway, Beachville Rd Christchurch?
Reports per year down 8% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 3,995 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Redcliffs took 5 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 112 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 21 October 2019.
Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
Alcohol rules on this ground
One sensitive site stands here, Te Raekura Redcliffs School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of it.
The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.
The suburb today
Schools here 1
Te Raekura Redcliffs SchoolFull Primary · decile 10 · EQI 400
Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Aratai College · and 2 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.
The green here 11
- Barnett Park ConservationRegional · 34 ha
- Barnett Park Sports GroundsSports ground · 8 ha · playground, 15 pieces
- Redcliffs ParkSports ground · 2 ha
- Augusta Reserve
- Balmoral Hill Reserveplayground, 8 pieces
- Rapanui Reserve
- Glenstrae Reserveplayground, 4 pieces
- Moncks Cave Reserve
The first eight of 11, Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
Where the suburb worships 2
- Port Hills Uniting Parish (Redcliffs Union Methodist & Presbyterian Church)a Methodist–Presbyterian cooperating church · 4 Augusta Street
- St Andrew's Anglican Church - Redcliffs / Sumner Redcliffs Anglican Churchan Anglican church · 148 Main Road
Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.
The tracks through here 1
- Walk and bike track through Redcliffs4.0 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.
The names on this ground 2
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 14.6% of this outline, about 28 hectares. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The Crown’s 2011 classification drew 5.7% of this outline, about 11 hectares inside the residential red zone. A mapped area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a classification is the record of a decision, not a finding about an address; the whole line is drawn at /redzone.
The 2011 grading filed 17.3% of this outline, about 33 hectares, mostly TC2, with TC3 14 ha · TC2 19 ha. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.
The flood record drew water over 46.9% of this outline, about 89 hectares, across 2 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.
The mapped tsunami extent covers 24% of this outline, about 45 hectares. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.
The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 14% of this outline, about 26 hectares, rockfall management area 1, cliff collapse management area 2, rockfall management area 2. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 55% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.
7 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly cemeteries and waste recycling, treatment and disposal, chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, vehicle refuelling, service and repair, 2 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.
The files record 88 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 16 hectares, mostly engineered fill, loess, mixed fill with rubbish, 3 carry fill the file can’t vouch for. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.
The rockfall survey mapped 242 rocks inside this outline across 44 survey pins, 234 came down. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.
1 parcel inside this outline carries a cleanup on the file. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.
The 2019 liquefaction study put 68% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, and 2 assessed areas here carry the free-face flag for possible lateral spreading. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.
The register puts 1 engineered rockfall defence inside this outline, 1 rock cable. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the whole register is drawn at /defences.
The council’s structure register stands 32 assets on this ground, 21 sets of steps, 4 bridges, 4 boardwalks, 2 ramps, sited at Barnett Park Conservation, Glenstrae Reserve, Barnett Park Sports Grounds, Drayton Reserve. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The recreation register keeps 18 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 7 touch rugby, 5 football, 3 rugby, 2 cricket. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 396 living trees inside this outline, 13 carrying a protection, mostly Pohutukawa, Kowhai, Norfolk island pine. The file remembers 159 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.
The plan files 42% of this outline under Residential Hills, 59% residential, the rest mostly Open Space Natural 19%, Residential Suburban 16%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.
The plan reserves about 2 hectares of this outline, 1%, under 1 designation, mostly learning. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.
The plan’s exceptions touch 6% of this outline, 13 qualifying matters, mostly section 6. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.
The plan’s heritage schedule protects 3 places by name in this suburb, 2 graded highly significant, Monck's Cave and Setting, Te Ana o Hineraki/Moa Bone Point Cave and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.
The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 100% of this outline, about 190 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna, wāhi tapu/wāhi taonga. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s ecological schedules cover 2% of this outline across 1 scheduled site, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 23% of this outline, about 43 hectares across 2 scheduled areas, 20% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 31% of it sits inside the coastal environment. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s flood map draws 3% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 5 hectares across 3 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 18% of it, Moncks Redcliffs, McCormacks Bay. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 22 classified reaches, the plan calling Glenstrae Stream Drain and Balmoral Drain by name, 9% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.
The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 1% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Hills. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.
The rebuild’s cameras filed 2,207 photographs on this ground, 2010–2017, stormwater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.
The pedal network threads this ground, 6.7 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The remembered names stand on this ground, 15 inscribed plaques, Barnett Park Sports Grounds, Redcliffs Public Library, Mccormacks Bay among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.
The rulebook binds this ground, 8 drawn instruments, 7 of them dog rules, 1 bottle-store buffer; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M6.0 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
- McCormacks Bay South endold dump · ?–1950
- Redcliffs Parkold dump · 1948–1953
The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.
The crash record 48 injury crashes
48 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Redcliffs's outline, 1 person killed, 13 seriously hurt.
The corner that keeps appearing: Main Road at Augusta Street, 8 injury crashes.
The crime record 268 recorded victimisations
268 victimisations on the Police record inside Redcliffs’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 33 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 10% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
The buses through it 8 stops
8 Metro stops inside Redcliffs's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 3, route 140.
- Main Rd near Augusta St near Main Rd
- Main Rd near Augusta St near Main Rd
- Main Rd near Celia St near Main Rd
- Main Rd near Celia St near Main Rd
- Main Rd near Raekura Pl near Main Rd
- Main Rd near Raekura Pl near Main Rd
- Mt Pleasant
- Mt Pleasant Terminus
Businesses here 22 in the directory
22 premises in Redcliffs across 18 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
- Bars & pubs2
- Bottle stores2
- Doctors & clinics2
- Restaurants2
- B&Bs1
- Beauty1
- Butchers1
- Cafés1
- Clothing1
- Clubs1
- Dairies & convenience1
- Dentists1
- Fast food1
- Hairdressers1
- Petrol stations1
- Pharmacies1
- Supermarkets1
- Vets1
Among them, the ones the record says most about:
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Redcliffs, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
1870s
1880s
31890s
1741900s
251910s
221920s
501930s
371940s
181950s
41960s
251970s
1980s
332000s
262010s
42020s
WAIMATE ROAD BOAED. (Timaru Herald, 02 August 1876)Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH RACES. (North Otago Times, 24 December 1883)North Otago Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
TELEGRAMS (Southland Times, 27 February 1894)
…y great and the loss to farmers will be heavy oamaru feb 28 w c mewbinney licensee of the redcliffs hotel at the mouth of the waitaki committed suicide yesterday while in a state of intoxication by ta…Southland Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 December 1899)
…turpin mary road papanui 120 miss e chancy 47 chester st chch 118 boy watch mrs j maffey redcliffs i 6 a l taylor domain gardens chch 114 alexander montreal st sydenham 113 miss l ayers peterborough…Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 30 December 1899)
…m 20 k turpin mary road papanui 120 e chancy 47 chester st chch 118 boy watch f-sj maffey redcliffs 114 a l taylor domain gardens chch 112 alexander montreal sfc sydenham 210 l ayers peterborough st 1…Ellesmere Guardian · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Group at Mount Pleasant, Redcliffs, Lyttelton explosion
…itten annotation reads: “Not an everyday scene.” Top right: View across the ocean towards Redcliffs. Handwritten annotation reads: “Redcliffs.” Bottom right: A submarine explosion in Lyttelton Harbour…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Views of Rakaia Gorge, Redcliffs
…Handwritten annotation reads: “Rakaia Gorge Bridges.” Top right: View across paddocks in Redcliffs, looking towards the Port Hills. Handwritten annotation reads: “At Redcliffs.” Bottom right: View ac…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Christmas card containing photograph
…taining a photograph of unidentified people in boats, one of which is named 'Rawhiti', in Redcliffs. Ernest Smith, photographs and papers…Ernest Smith, photographs and papers · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Exterior view of houses in Redcliffs and Papanui
Page 16 of photograph album. Left: Two women and one man on the veranda of a house in Redcliffs, Christchurch. Handwritten annotation reads: “House at Redcliffs.” Right: Three women and Mr Childs…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Moncks Bay, Tresillian Station house
…docks towards a house in Moncks Bay, Christchurch. Handwritten annotation reads: ‘Monk’s. Redcliffs.” Right: The back of the house at Tresillian Station near Aylesbury. Drayton album…Drayton album · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Redcliffs 5 lately
Notoplana seen — Main Rd near Raekura Pl, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081, New ZealandiNaturalist · marbattrick ·
Hairy-handed Crab seen — Main Rd near Raekura Pl, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081, New ZealandiNaturalist · marbattrick ·
Blue Green Chiton seen — Main Rd near Raekura Pl, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081, New ZealandiNaturalist · marbattrick ·
New Zealand Half Crab seen — Main Rd near Raekura Pl, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081, New ZealandiNaturalist · marbattrick ·
Small Brown Sea Anemone seen — Main Rd near Raekura Pl, Redcliffs, Christchurch 8081, New ZealandiNaturalist · marbattrick ·
70 more documents came up in searches for Redcliffs's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Redcliffs with Moncks Bay · Mount Pleasant · Clifton · Southshore · Richmond Hill · Ferrymead, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Redcliffs?
Redcliffs is an outer coastal suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand. The public record holds 2,455 council reports for it, the first filed in July 2015.
How many people live in Redcliffs?
2,150 people at the 2023 Census, 1,134 per square kilometre across 1.9 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Redcliffs?
About 2,061 people and 891 occupied private households: grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Redcliffs?
2,455 reports on record, most often water & drains (757), trees & parks (482), roads & footpaths (457). 325 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Redcliffs had?
48 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 1 person killed, 13 seriously hurt. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Redcliffs?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M6.0 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
Every suburb in Christchurch → · Its decade, charted → · the whole A–Z →