157 Prestons Road
9 council reports since January 2022, 9 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
- Alwyn Park, 485 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Action Reroofing, 246 m away · Roofers
- Burlington Village, 380 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
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 9 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 20 Jul 2026 broken bin lid. bin number 299417
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 16 Jul 2026 The recent altered Prestons Road between 149 to 167 has created an increased road slope towards our houses. The rain water now runs directly
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Jul 2026 149 to 167 Prestons Road has a dangerous trip hazard footpath.
Rubbish and Bins - General, 16 Jul 2026 Replacements needed. Thank you. Broken yellow bin lid and cracked red bin and lid.
Street Cleaning, 1 Jul 2026 Our gutters are full of shingle and sludge from all the road works. Plus we have an uneven surface with half shingle and the other half tars
Damaged Road, 15 Feb 2024 Pot holes and ripped up surface
Water Leak, 29 Jun 2022 Water leak NOT fixed since 02/06/22. Flooding street, path and neighbour's properties
Water Leak, 2 Jun 2022 Water supply leaking again
Water Leak, 21 Jan 2022 Outside 157 Prestons road. Water leaking. Water mains supply taps turned off & dry
Elsewhere on Prestons Road
- 120R Prestons Road, 15 reports
- 131 Prestons Road, 11 reports
- 120 Prestons Road, 11 reports
- 1 Prestons Road, 10 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
9 council reports on record since January 2022, most often water leak (3), rubbish and bins - general (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Redwood, Christchurch, on Prestons Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Alwyn Park, 485 m to its edge.








