1 Prestons Road
10 council reports since August 2019, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 120R Prestons Road, 15 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
- Canberra Reserve, 233 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- James Condon Park, 297 m to the edge
- Redwood Park, 304 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 26 pieces
- Barnes Reserve, 407 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Murchison Park, 432 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 41 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
- Redwood Library, 429 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Wash n' Run, 20 m away · Car washes
- Sushi Lane, 32 m away · Fast food
- Redwood Fried Foods, 40 m away · Fast food
- Mobil, 41 m away · Petrol stations
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main North Rd near Barnes Rd, 113 m away · route 1, route 95
- Main North Rd near Sturrocks Rd, 114 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 Redwood, 189 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Redwood, 310 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Redwood, 354 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Redwood, 437 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Redwood, 438 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Redwood ran about $542 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
- Street Cleaning, 23 Aug 2026
Crash debris glass etc on the corner of Prestons/Main north opposite Mobil.
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Jul 2026 broken stuff in gutter
- Traffic Signals, 18 Jan 2026
it appears that the traffic lights always thinks there is a pedestrian needing to cross when the buttons have not been pushed. this is delay
Roads - General, 4 Nov 2025 Camera has falling off
Pavement - Damaged, 17 May 2025 There are two sinkholes in the footpath corner of main North Road and Prestons Road. A cone had been put in one, the other I think is new.
Pavement - Damaged, 16 May 2025 There are two spots on the footpath by the lights at the Mobil where the pavement has sunk and holes have opened up. They are a real risk to
- Pavement - General, 10 May 2025
Corner of prestons and main nth mobile side, hole opened up in footpath 100x100mm wide 500 deep, another starting
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 10 Apr 2025 Graffiti on two large odour filters
General Request, 23 Jan 2025 I’m not sure how to categorise this: the light at this intersection with Main North Road has suddenly stopped cycling properly. The green li
Roading/Streets, 7 Aug 2019
in intersection right tune traffic hitting pot hole
Elsewhere on Prestons Road
- 120R Prestons Road, 15 reports
- 131 Prestons Road, 11 reports
- 120 Prestons Road, 11 reports
- 157 Prestons Road, 9 reports
- 106 Prestons Road, 9 reports
- 137 Prestons Road, 5 reports
- 51 Prestons Road, 4 reports
- 28B Prestons Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Prestons Road in 38 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 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.
Prestons Road, the whole record → · Everything about Redwood → · 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
10 council reports on record since August 2019, most often pavement - damaged (2), traffic signals (1), street cleaning (1).
Redwood, Christchurch, on Prestons Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Canberra Reserve, 233 m to its edge.